About the Author

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Claudi Carreras is an independent curator and photography researcher; he graduated from the University of Barcelona, where he is a doctoral candidate in the fine arts. Carreras has organized numerous solo and collective exhibitions, which have been shown in more than 50 countries on four continents. In 2008 he directed the first meeting of Latin American Photographic Collective in Sao Paulo, and in 2010 the E-CO, the first Encounter of Photo Collectives in Europe and Latin America. He was head curator of the Paraty em Foco Festival in Rio de Janeiro from 2011 to 2015; he also curated and edited the LatinUS Project, a photographic review of Latin America in USA for the Spain USA Foundation in collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery in Washington and the Smithsonian Latino Center. In 2018 he presented Africamericanos in Mexico, a project on the African heritage in Latin America that began to tour in 2019. He lives in Barcelona, Spain.