Biography:
Adriana Parrilla is a documentary, editorial photographer, and visual artist born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She is based between San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Paris, France. Her professional background as a ballet and contemporary dancer...
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Focus:Photographer, Photojournalist, Researcher, Travel, Still Life, Fine Art, Documentary, Style, Creative, Video, Photography, Foreign, Portraiture, Illustration, Lifestyle, Dancer, Journalist Investigative, Freelance, Communications, Visual Communications , International, Web Designer, Editing, Storyteller, Visual Artist, Design, Host, Photo Coordinator, Race, Still Photographer, Studio Photographer, Content Creation, Landscape, Portrait Photography, Social Justice, Visual Storyteller, Visual Storytelling
Covering:Europe,Latin America,USA & Canada
Skills:Research, Food Styling, Graphic Design, Color Correction, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Premier, Photo Editing, Black & White Printing, Mixed Media, Web Design, Illlustration, Branding, Typography, Curating, Art Direction, Fashion Styling, Photojournalism, Retouching, Video Editing, UI/UX Design, Film Photography, Sketch Design App, Canva, Adobe Creative Suite, Photoshop, Design Thinking, Commercial, Editorial, Content Strategy, Corporate Brand Guidelines , Infographics, Brand Campaigns, FIGMA
From the Project / No Me Llames Trigueña; Soy Negra
Cuyón, Aibonito, Puerto Rico
#Art#Documentary#Photography#Portrait
May 22, 2021
Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum, says that to answer the question Who am I? will depend to a large extent on who the world around us says who we are? What message is reflected to me in the faces of my community? -- Zaida, 37, poses for a portrait in Cuyón, Aibonito, Puerto Rico. May 22, 2021. No Me Llames Trigueña; Soy Negra, is the quest for a Black identity and belonging in a socio-cultural context where Blacks are systematically invisibilized. Looking deeper into my experience growing up, by doing mixed-media photography and intervening with archives, I analyze colonization and racialization in Puerto Rico in an attempt to dismantle colorism and the notion of “otherness” surrounding the Afro-Puerto Rican identity.