Elizabeth Ferrer’s recent publication (2021) of “Latinx Photography in the U.S. A Visual History” is the first book on Latinx photography. There has been no comprehensive museum exhibition, no college-level art course on the subject (to Ferrer’s knowledge).
My own consciousness of Latinx photography emerged when I began to make my own photos in 2018. I discovered a plethora of artists searching for Latinx photographers in NYC, Joseph Rodriguez, and more contemporary artists like Adeline Lulo, Erika P. Rodriguez, and Diego Palomino.
The pioneering work of Deborah Willis and Arlene Dávila serve as inspiration for building an archive, a visual history of Latinx photography.
This photography archive will publish Latinx photographs that find me— in photobooks, in zines, in library collections as a means to continue building a visual history—one photo at a time.
