Curator, editor, researcher, and educator in Latin American photography Maíra C. Gamarra
Maíra C. Gamarra is a curator, editor, researcher, and educator who has built an expressive trajectory in the field of Latin American photography. She holds a degree in Social Communication and a master’s degree in Latin American Studies. With nearly 20 years of experience, she has developed a consistent practice at the intersection of curatorial research, critical writing, education, and artist development, advancing projects that challenge dominant visual narratives and foreground anticolonial and socially engaged perspectives.
CURATORIAL WORK
Photography as a field of inquiry
Maíra C. Gamarra’s curatorial practice unfolds at the intersection of research, listening, critical writing, and the creation of contexts for the circulation of images. Her curatorial projects approach photography as a field of symbolic, political, and cultural dispute, engaging with questions of memory, territory, representation, power, and visibility.
WRITINGS
Writing across research and curatorship
Writing is a central part of Maíra C. Gamarra’s practice, moving across curatorial research, criticism, editing, pedagogical thinking, and reflection on photography and visual culture. Her texts address images, artists, exhibitions, books, archives, and collective practices from a situated, critical, and anticolonial perspective, with attention to the relations between memory, territory, representation, power, and circulation.
This section brings together articles, essays, texts for books and catalogues, interviews, and other writings developed in dialogue with artists, institutions, publications, and independent projects.
TALKS & LECTURES
Audiovisual records of public activities
This section brings together audiovisual records of talks, classes, lectures, conversations, live sessions, interviews, roundtables, and other public activities featuring Maíra C. Gamarra.
12th Photo in Focus — Tiradentes Photography Festival
Photothings Dialogues 2023: Maíra Gamarra and Sonia Madrigal
TEACHING
Educational activities and mentorships
This section brings together educational activities, public programs, and mentorship processes developed by Maíra C. Gamarra across different contexts, including courses, workshops, lectures, talks, mentorships, portfolio reviews, study groups, and training programs. The materials gathered here reflect a pedagogical practice committed to critical depth, the development of authorial projects, and the strengthening of artists, photographers, and image-makers.
OTHER PROJECTS
Authorial projects and collaborations
This section brings together authorial projects, collaborative initiatives, and platforms developed or coordinated by Maíra C. Gamarra throughout her career.
Mira Latina
Mira Latina is an organization dedicated to the creation and development of ideas that, through art and photography, seeks to promote and encourage artistic actions and experiences, fostering new spaces for dialogue and exchange among visual creators and professionals from different countries.
LATEST
News and public activities
This section brings together news, invitations, records, and updates on activities carried out by Maíra C. Gamarra in dialogue with institutions, festivals, cultural platforms, and independent projects. It includes talks, roundtables, workshops, open classes, portfolio reviews, event participations, public programs, and other actions developed across different contexts.
What does documentary photography still have to tell us?
Workers Today: What has photography learned from Salgado?
Meet Maíra C. Gamarra, faculty member at Rizoma
CONTACTS
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