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Tatiana Lopez (Ambato, Ecuador, 1990.) Documentary photographer, visual anthropologist, and artist currently based in Ecuador.
Her practice is rooted in the narratives that the body and the land trace, connecting the role place and memory play in constructing and deconstructing identity. Through photography and filmmaking, Tatiana explores the intersectionality between cultural identity, women’s rights, environmental conservation, transgenerational trauma, and extractivism.
Following her background in visual anthropology, her work is informed by practice-led research, combining sensory and participatory ethnography, photo embroidery, and alternative photographic processes as collaborative and experimental modes to co-create visual stories that challenge conventional narratives and modes of representation. Her ethnographic research interests include Indigenous animistic practices, the body-territory relations in connection with indigeneity and well-being, and the study of human and other-than-human relationships through dreams.
Tatiana’s ethnographic film, “Naku Ikinyu,” has been officially selected for international film festivals in Ecuador, the United States, Germany, Austria, Spain, Mexico, Denmark, and Finland. In 2021, “Naku Ikinyu” received the Audience Award from Muestra de Antropología Audiovisual de Madrid (MAAM) and the Graduate Student Award for Outstanding Work from The Society for Visual Anthropology. She received the Revolutionary Storyteller Grant 2022 from Photographers Without Borders and won third place in the LensCulture Fine Art Photography Awards 2022. Her photography has been part of international exhibitions in Mexico, Spain, Bolivia, the United States, England, and Canada.
She is an Up Next Diversify Photo and Women Photograph member and collaborates with Tawna Cine.
For Tatiana, storytelling is a constant journey of self-discovery, connection, meditation, understanding, and transformation.
Awards and Workshops
2023 - Recipient of ECO/23] Ecologias/Territorios/Comunidades Grant with Tawna, Vist Projects. 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
Exhibitions
2023 - "ECO/23] Ecologías/Territorios/Comunidades", Cultural Center of Spain, CDMX, Mexico. 2023 - "ECO/23] Ecologías/Territorios/Comunidades", Paseo del Prado, La Paz, Bolivia. 2023 - "PAUSA" GetxoPhoto Festival, Bilbao, Spain. 2023 - Photo London at Somerset House, LensCulture Exhibition, London, UK. 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
Publications
2022 - Ecuador Patrimonios del Mundo, Fábrica de Ideas + Instituto Metropolitano de Patrimonio. 2022 - Issue #17 Photographers Without Borders Magazine. 2020 - “Through Your Lens”, Photographers Without Borders magazine