Foto Féminas Panel - BRONX DOCUMENTARY CENTER

Panel Talk: Foto Féminas — Identity & Representation in Latin American Photography

Saturday, October 18, 5 PM

BDC Annex
364 E. 151st St
Bronx, NY 10451

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Join photographers from the Foto Féminas (@fotofeminas) collective as they discuss themes of identity and representation in their photo projects centered around Latin American communities.

Whether photographing Latina transwomen, recent immigrants, or older generations of Mexican immigrant women, these photographers work carefully and collaboratively to represent and honor the communities they photograph. Rhynna Santos will moderate the discussion with Cinthya Santos-Briones, Joana Toro, and Nathalie Sayago.

Cinthya Santos-Briones (@cinthyasantosb) is an interdisciplinary artist and scholar of Nahua Indigenous heritage based in New York. Her practice integrates ethnography, historiography, and socially engaged art to explore the historical and social dimensions of migration. Working across photography, archival materials, writing, drawing, collage, textiles, and popular education, she creates nonlinear narratives that amplify community voices and cultivate collective storytelling.

Joana Toro (@joanaphoto) is a self-taught Colombian photographer currently in New York City and Bogotá, whose work explores issues of immigration, human rights, and identity. Her work has been featured from publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Open Society Foundations.

Nathalie Sayago (@nathaliesayago) is a photojournalist and documentary photographer focusing on social and human rights issues. She is based between Venezuela and New York City, and her work has been published in The New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Wall Street Journal, and more.

Rhynna Santos (@rhynnasantos) is a Puerto Rico-born documentary photographer and teaching artist living and working in the Bronx. Her art captures the beautiful, painful, funny, and endlessly complex lives and perspectives of people of color in her community. She is also the founder of the Bronx Women’s Photo Collective and curator for the Instagram feed Everyday Bronx.