Three Latinx Photographers on Identity & Artistic Practice | Aperture Conversations

In a series of online public programs that accompanied the winter issue of Aperture magazine, “Latinx,” photographers, historians, and writers reflected on imagery that celebrates the dynamic visions of Latinx people across the United States.

On February 8, 2022, Aperture hosted an online panel discussion that brought together three photographers whose practices investigate their identities: Genesis Báez’s intimate portraits show diasporic communities of Puerto Rican women in the Northeastern US; Joiri Minaya’s constructed collages explore the concept of opacity; and Steven Molina Contreras tenderly photographs his family both in the US and his native El Salvador.

This discussion was moderated by writer Karla Cornejo Villavicencio.

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Thumbnail Image: Steven Molina Contreras, "Mujeres Celestiales (Celestial women)," United States, 2021

Contents of this video
0:00 Introduction by Michael Famighetti
3:48 Words from conversation moderator
7:25 First time you were able to use high quality materials?
17:24 Inspirations outside of photography
19:30 Relationship to "looking"
24:47 Photography as an art vs. a job
27:20 Journalistic Techniques
34:17 Influences
37:13 First photograph ever made
38:29 First photographic project?
40:35 Current Projects
42:19 Questions from the audience
56:12 Closing Remarks

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