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Tatiana Lopez is an Ecuadorian photographer, visual anthropologist, and artist based between Ecuador and the United States.
Following her background in visual anthropology, she is interested in incorporating practice-led research that combines participatory and sensory ethnography as her main methods of representation. Her ethnographic research interests include indigenous people’s animistic practices, body-territory relations in connection to indigeneity, and the study of human/other than human relations through dreams.
At the core of her practice, she incorporates collaborative methods of visual storytelling and uses photography and filmmaking as mediums to explore the intersectionality between identity, environmental issues, and women’s rights.
Her ethnographic film “Naku Ikinyu” received the audience award from MAAN (Muestra de Anthropología Visual de Madrid) 7th Edition-2021 and it was selected as one of two winners of the 2021 Graduate Student Award for Outstanding Work offered by The Society for Visual Anthropology.
For Tatiana storytelling is a constant journey of self-discovery, connection, meditation, understanding and transformation.
Exhibitions
2022 - “Mother Earth Speaks”, CONTACT Exhibit, Photographers without Borders 2021 - "Reframe" Online Exhibition, Photographers Without Borders 2021 - “Reimagine” Photographers Without Borders Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival. 2021 - "Pathways to Reconnection" Online Ethnographic Exhibition, Freie Universität Berlin 2021 - “Futuro Ahora Group Show” Online Exhibition, Femgrafia + Fotofeminas. 2019 - "Syndicate Eleven" Hošek Contemporary, Berlin, Germany 2018 - “Illuminations” 313 Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
Film Festivals
2022 - Naku Ikinyu / Katra Latinx Festival Official Selection, New York City - USA 2022 - Naku Ikinyu / 16th Ethnocineca, IDFF, Vienna - Austria 2022 - Naku Ikinyu / German International Film Festival, Göttingen - Germany 2021 - Naku Ikinyu / Nature and Culture Poetry Film Festival, Copenhagen - Denmark 2021 - Naku Ikinyu / "Fiorenzo Serra Film Festival" Quarter Finalist, Sassari - Italy 2021 - Naku Ikinyu / MAAM, Finalist, Madrid - Spain 2021 - Naku Ikinyu / Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival Virtual Edition, USA 2021 - Naku Ikinyu / Global Peace Film Festival, Free for all Short Virtual Edition, Florida - USA 2021 - Naku Ikinyu / “Breaking the Rules? Power, Participation, Transgression”, Helsinki - Finland
Awards and Workshops
2022 - Revolutionary Storyteller Grant Recipient / Photographers without Borders 2022 - In Between Dreams the Forest Echos the Song of the Burning Anaconda / LensCulture’s Art Photography Awards, 3rd Place Winner 2021 - Shortlisted in the Lucie Foundation Fine Art Scholarship Program 2021 - Naku Ikinyu / SVA Graduate Student Award for Outstanding Work, Winner 2021 - Naku Ikinyu / Audience Award, Muestra de Antropología Audiovisual de Madrid (MAAM) 2021 - Long-Term Project (Virtual) Workshop with Natalie Keyssar + Daniella Zalcman 2021- Documentary Photography Storytelling Online Workshop with Tamara Merino 2020 - Photographers Without Borders Storytelling Online School with Danielle Khan Da Silva
Publications
2020 - “Through Your Lens”, Photographers Without Borders magazine