LATITUDES FOTOMEXICO 2017, PHOTOGRAPHY INTERNACIONAL FESTIVAL
Today it is possible for us to know what is going on with photography in different geographies around the world, without having to limit ourselves to exploring this medium from a single place or centralized history. On that account, the second edition of the International Photography Festival FOTOMEXICO brings together a considerable group of exhibitions and activities with the theme of Latitudes, in order to seek approximations to the notions of identity, society, territory, and memory. FOTOMEXICO 2017 offers the possibility to observe, think, and reflect upon the photographic production generated across five continents. At the same time, the Foto Mexico Network incorporates the participation of numerous initiatives across the country with proposals by renowned artists, as well as photographers still in the process of training. This festival is a space for the exchange of ideas among photographers, researchers, specialists, curators, and the general public. FOTOMÉXICO 2017 couples the work of national and foreign artists with the purpose of generating a dialogue and an opportunity to learn about Mexican, American, and Latin American photographers, as well as others from Scandinavia, South Africa, Nigeria, Japan, India, and Australia. Through their eyes, we may address different political, social, and identity issues, as well as the reconfiguration of other territories. Among the international exhibitions that form part of the festival, we may discover the extraordinary collection of Artur Walther hosted at the Museo Amparo in Puebla. This passionate German collector, based in Neu-Ulm, Germany, and in New York, since the 1990 set out to bring together the most outstanding African and Asian contemporary photography and video art, while impulsing its production. Whereas the collection Jan Mulder, a renowned Peruvian collector and a great promoter of Latin American photography, holds the work of artists including Milagros de la Torre, Alexander Apóstol, and Roberto Huarcaya; classic works by Gustave Le Gray, André Kertész, Man Ray, and more contemporary pieces by Edwin Olaf and Cindy Sherman. On this occasion, the Museo Tamayo presents an extraordinary selection of vintage copies by the Andean photographer Martín Chambi, alongside his contemporaries that visited Peru in the early 20th century, such as Irving Penn, Luigi Doménico Gismondi, Robert Frank, and Werner Bischof. With MELK, a recently created Norwegian initiative, we will learn about the production of young Scandinavian creators working in the field photography and visual arts. The French artists Antoine d’Agata and Pierre Verger, of radically different generations and sensibility, reveal their impressions of Mexico. From the Fundación Televisa collection, we can view at the Museo Nacional de Antropología the traditional and costumbrist Mexico