Biography:
Marcelo Pérez del Carpio was born in Bolivia in 1982 and spent his early years in Venezuela before moving back to his home country to study architecture. Halfway, he found his source of inspiration in the world of images and later,...
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José Hernández and María Torres' son, Luciano, blows the candles of his birthday cake surrounded by other Venezuelan kids in La Paz, on August 15, 2021. They live in a house with 10 other Venezuelan families, part of the small but growing community of Venezuelans who have fled their troubled homeland. Nowadays, Bolivia hosts about 18,000 Venezuelan refugees and migrants, a figure that has doubled in the past year.