Jorge Luis Chavarria Aleman

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Location: Guatemala city

Nationality: Guatemala

Biography: Jorge Luis Chavarría Born in Guatemala (1978)—Jorge Luis Chavarría is a photographer and artist. Hi s work explores gender, culture, identity, and placement. His work is a crossroads of documentary photography,... MORE

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2015: Wrestling's Daily Struggle in Guatemala featured in the New York Times Lens Blog

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Aug 3, 2016

Everyone loves a winner. But as everyone knows, somebody has to lose. Indeed, for Guatemala City's wrestlers, life itself is a daily struggle against defeat on all of life's fronts. That realization came to Jorge Luis Chavarría when he started photographing the masked luchadores who grappled more for love than for money. If anything, he found himself wondering about the losers right at the moment of defeat.

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