Javier Alvarez

Photographer
www.javieralvarezm.com/
  
Album Familiar X FIFV
Stories (16)
Location: Brooklyn
Nationality: Chilean
Biography: Javier Álvarez (Santiago de Chile, 1988) is a documentary photographer with a special interest in social issues. His work is focused on human relationships in neglected communities. Alvarez's work has been exhibited, published, granted... read on
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Album Familiar X FIFV
Credits: javier alvarez
Date of Work: 02/01/12 - 12/31/69
Updated: 11/07/19
Location: Valparaiso Chile
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A photographic exercise that rescues Valparaiso's abandoned photo lab developing orders, as an attempt to access to one of the people's most precious moments in life: Family Time.


Through the artistic residencies program produced by FIFV (Valparaiso International Photo Festival) and the Chilean National Council for Arts and Culture, this exercise was edited as a collaborative publication named "El Album Familiar", released and exhibited in the port of Valparaíso, Chile in February 2012.


Artists invited:

Lister Silva
Andrea Spoerer
Francisco Navarrete
Cristóbal Olivares
Patricio Miranda
Javier Alvarez
Orlando Rojas
Chi-Hua Salinas


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