Felipe Romero Beltrán, born in 1992 in Bogotá, is a Colombian artist currently based in Paris, France. His artistic endeavors are deeply rooted in exploring social issues, with a particular focus on the tension that arises from the introduction of new narratives within the realm of documentary photography. Beltrán's practice is characterized by its commitment to long-term projects, accompanied by meticulous research that enriches the depth and context of his work. Beltrán pursued his academic journey with an interest for photography, culminating in a Ph.D. in Photography from the Complutense University of Madrid. His academic pursuits not only reflect his commitment to the craft but also serve as a foundation for the conceptual approach that permeates his photographic projects.
Daniela López (b. 1991, Bucaramanga, Colombia) is a Colombian photographer and director based in Barcelona. Through a research-driven process, her work explores the interplay between people, culture, and place. Her work focuses on overlooked stories, traditional practices, and forms of knowledge that are gradually disappearing, with a particular emphasis on the voices, experiences, and perspectives of women. Working with analog photography and film, Daniela combines visual research with long-term engagement and lived experience to develop intimate narratives that move between documentary and artistic practice. Through experimental approaches to image-making, she explores how personal and collective memories are transmitted through bodies, landscapes, objects, and artisanal practices.
Bibi Euse is a Ghent-based photographer with an active practice since 2017, working across both analogue and digital mediums. Her work stems from a deep fascination with nature, light, and texture, striving to create imagery that inhabits the space between photography and painting. Through an intimate, contemplative lens, she explores the medium's capacity to transform the everyday and craft painterly atmospheres. Over the years, she has built extensive experience in portraiture, collaborating closely with independent musicians and artists. She has produced portraits and cover art for various independent record labels, creating visual identities that resonate with and elevate each musical project. Her practice bridges the organic, tactile unpredictability of film with the possibilities of digital photography, guided by a personal search for atmosphere, sensitivity, and natural beauty.
Andrés RíosAndrés Ríos is a Colombian photographer based in Bogotá. His work explores intimacy, friendship, family, and the everyday spaces we inhabit. Through a close and personal perspective, he photographs the relationships and moments that shape his life, finding beauty in the everyday.
Manuel Cardozo( 1994) is a photographer born in Bogotá, Colombia. He initially studied Environmental Engineering, but over time chose to pursue a creative path through photography. He is currently based in Barcelona, where he develops a photographic practice that explores contemporary life through different perspectives and layers. His work moves between the intimate and the documentary, while also incorporating elements of fashion photography. Through a sensitive and contemporary gaze, Manuel explores the relationship between people, their surroundings, and the different ways reality can be represented, creating images that exist between personal experience, observation, and visual storytelling.
Isabella Madrid (Pereira, Colombia, 1999) is a visual artist and photographer. A graduate of Visual Arts from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, with a Master's in Photography with honors from ECAL, Switzerland, her practice explores identity through self-portraiture, photography, collage, and assemblage, interweaving the feminine, the political, and popular culture. Her work has been presented internationally at Photo Elysée, Festival Circulation(s), PhEST, and Espacio Odeón, and has been published in outlets such as Aperture, Photoworks, FOAM Magazine, and i-D.
Faber Franco is a visual and plastic artist based in Bogotá. His artistic practice seeks to produce images through processes related to photography and drawing. He explores the expressive possibilities of objects, archives, and bodies through a sensitive and daring gaze. Faber builds visual universes where the sensual, the plastic, the urban, and the intimate constantly intersect. His practice is characterized by embracing the unexpected and prioritizes the pursuit of creative freedom in order to break away from traditional formats and visual readings.
David Mesa (b. Pereira, Colombia) is a Colombian photographer whose practice moves between photo-documentary and fashion. His work explores intimacy, desire, and identity, often through the male body and queer narratives. Through a tactile and observational approach, Mesa brings vulnerability and sensuality into dialogue with both staged and everyday contexts. His practice is also informed by questions of migration and cultural crossings, reflecting on how lived experience shapes personal and collective memory.
Liliana Merizalde González is a documentary photographer and visual artist whose work explores themes of identity, gender, memory, and territory, alongside collective artistic practices. She combines documentary photography with staged elements based on life stories to deepen how social, political, and community situations are documented and understood, seeking to question the boundaries of documentary photography and its colonial dynamics. She has also worked with personal archives, historical photographic processes, and organic materials. She has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Colombia (Galería La Cometa, Galería El Museo, Galería Sin Título, and Espacio Odeón), as well as in Peru, Spain, and the United States. Her work has been published in outlets such as Atmos, Der Spiegel, Where the Leaves Fall, Americas Quarterly, New Internationalist, VICE, Hyperallergic, The New York Times, Foto Féminas, El Tiempo, and El Espectador, among others. Recent recognitions include being shortlisted for the Prince Claus-CAREC Award (2023), selected for MOPLA (Month of Photography LA) organized by the Lucie Foundation, awarded the Women Photograph Time and Space Residency (2019), shortlisted for the IPWA (2018), and nominated for the Sara Modiano Award (2015).
David Sanchez is a photographer, visual artist, and social worker from Universidad de Caldas. Born in Líbano, Tolima, in 1999, he grew up surrounded by the daily rhythms of his father’s corner store and his mother’s craft as a manicurist. Raised in a town marked by the Colombian armed conflict, this context deeply shaped his sensibility and continues to guide his creative process. Moving between analog and digital photography and video, his work focuses on capturing street and neighborhood culture, highlighting expressions that diverge from traditional norms — such as punk, rap, gravity bike culture, and the symbolism of bodies that bear the wounds of existence with resilience and passion.
