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Juan Orrantia

Photographer based in Johannesburg, South Africa

Juan Orrantia makes photographic works that involve subjective approaches to the postcolonial condition and experiments with the representational function of the image. For this he explores different modes of photographically... read on

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Like Stains of Red Dirt

By Juan Orrantia — PREORDER BOOK

Jan 15, 2020

VISUAL STORY

Is this Tomorrow (Fotofria)

By Juan Orrantia — Is this tomorrow (2018). Collaborative project with Zahara Gómez and Mauricio Palos ...

Mar 4, 2019

VISUAL STORY

There was heat that smelled of bread and dead fish

By Juan Orrantia — There was heat that smelled of bread and dead fish is conceived as a journey through the passing of time..

Dec 10, 2018

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Normalcy

By Juan Orrantia / Colombia — When I arrived 6 years after the massacre there were no statues, no monument, nothing to remember the..

Jan 9, 2019

VISUAL STORY

Residues

By Juan Orrantia / Africa, Mozambique

Jun 7, 2018

VISUAL STORY

Escapees

By Juan Orrantia — It almost became a topic of dinner conversation. Should we leave? To Miami or to New York? By the early..

Jul 5, 2016

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Why would...

By Juan Orrantia — In 1986 Chris Marker released his famous film Sans Soleil (Sunless) . Partly based in Guinea-Bissau, this..

Mar 17, 2020

VISUAL STORY

While I was thinking about sex

By Juan Orrantia / Latin America, Colombia, Bogota — Fragments of adolecent memories and the shaping of masculinity. (ongoing)

Jul 12, 2017

VISUAL STORY

The afterlife of coca dreams

By Juan Orrantia / Latin America, Colombia —

Jul 12, 2017

Displaying 1–9 of 9 most recent

Like Stains of Red Dirt

Updated Jan 15, 2020

Fine Art, Photography

Is this Tomorrow (Fotofria)

Updated Mar 04, 2019

Capitalism, Civil Wars, Dictatorship, Documentary, Freedom, Genocide, Human Rights, Latin America, Military, Militias, Mixed Medium, Peace, Photography, Politics, Revolution, War

There was heat that smelled of bread and dead fish

Black and White, Civil Wars, Community, Documentary, Dying/Death, Fear, Genocide, Human Rights, Latin America, Loss, Militias, Multimedia, Peace, Poverty, Short Film, Violence, War

Residues

Updated Jun 07, 2018

Black and White, Civil Wars, Documentary, Events, Historical, Landscape, memory, Militias, Peace, Photography, War

Escapees

Updated Jul 05, 2016

memory, mules, drug carriers,

Why would...

Updated Mar 17, 2020

anticolonialism, Civil Wars, Dictatorship, Documentary, Freedom, Hope, Landscape, memory, Panafricanism, Photography, Portraiture, Spotlight, Violence

While I was thinking about sex

Updated Jul 12, 2017

cocaine; narcotraffic;, Documentary, Landscape, Latin America, memory, Nude, Personal, Photography, Teens

The afterlife of coca dreams

Updated Jul 12, 2017

cocaine, Colombia, Documentary, Fear, Landscape, Latin America, memory, Militias, Portraiture, Violence