Javier Alvarez

Photographer
   
VALPARAISO
Location: Brooklyn
Nationality: Chilean
Biography: hola@javieralvarezm.com   1-303-746-0504 Brooklyn, NY / Santiago, Chile. Javier Álvarez is a Chilean documentary photographer focused on social issues. After pursuing a BFA in Photography, Javier worked as a freelance editorial and... MORE
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VALPARAISO
Copyright Javier Alvarez 2024
Updated Apr 2024
Location Brazil, Sao Palo
Topics Abandonment, Capitalism, Community, Documentary, Dreams, Family, Homelessness, Human Rights, Latin America, Minority, Photography, Photojournalism, Poverty, Relationships, Workers Rights
Project commissioned by Imagen Salvaje and Valparaiso International Photo Festival FIFV to reinterpret the photobook CURAUMA (FIFV Ediciones, 2017) of the French photographer Bertrand Meunier. In 2014, 400 copies of Bertrand's book Curauma (FIFV Ediciones, 2014) were removed from circulation due to printing errors. After 12 years in storage, these copies were recycled to reactivate a sparkling new visual dialogue with the 34 black-and-white plates, using the author's consent.

The festival invited six Ibero-American artists to intervene in these discarded books. Alvarez's version depicts the twin city of Valparaíso (Florida, US), home to the largest military airbase in the world. Separated by thousands of miles, both places opened the land for men to create spaces where death settled forever—devastation, repetition, dehumanized formality. No entropy was allowed on both suburbian Valparaiso(s). Doomed, recycled, it does not matter. We do not matter.

Anamaría Briede Westermeyer 
Artistic Director, IMAGEN SALVAJE


See the book here and here

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