Latin American Foto Festival 2025

Curated by Cynthia Rivera and Michael Kamber, LAFF continues to spotlight socially engaged photography from across Latin America to amplify personal and collective narratives while honouring the cultural sites in NYC that have long preserved Latin American identity.

This year’s featured works come from Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Colombia, and El Salvador, and touch on issues ranging from land occupation to displacement, political resistance to everyday survival. You’ll find portraits of Venezuelan elders navigating life alone after being left behind; an archive spanning eighty years of the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico; and images from a cooperative in El Salvador confronting intersecting crises of incarceration and water access.

Among the participating artists, Carmen Mojica reflects on memory and Black Puerto Rican identity through images that bridge the South Bronx and contemporary Puerto Rico. Boris Mercado captures the layered history of Santa Elisa, a former luxury building in Lima turned refuge for society’s most vulnerable. And Bats’i Lab collective curates a decades-spanning visual account of Mayan resistance and Zapatista organizing in Chiapas.

As always, LAFF isn’t just about the images, so you can expect workshops, guided tours, talks, and neighbourhood events. The festival invites the public to engage directly with the artists and the communities they document, transforming corners into spaces for reflection, resistance, and dialogue.