IMAGES OF PRESENTS/GHOSTS OF THE PAST

The representation of subjects in the Americas has always generated points of convergences, or divergences. To represent Indians, slaves or employees was an ethnographic decision that ultimately helped compose a particular characterization of a specific place. In this paper, I present a selection from three photographers-Marc Ferrez, Christiano Junior and Martín Chambi-whose contributions helped shape a personal / particular view of certain regions of Latin America. In a second moment, I confront these photographs with the works of contemporary Ecuadorian photographer Lucia Chiriboga, who incorporates antique photographs and documents in her art, in a direct dialogue with the past.