Inevitably it is necessary to give a historical perspective of this yearly festival that takes place in the city of La Paz, Bolivia in the first week of June. The celebration transforms and stimulates the social life of La Paz every year, emanating from a particular way of understanding and living Andean Catholicism. The Parade begins with a procession through the western part of the city. This procession is central to the event, involving 40,000 devotees who dance and sing in an offering to the patron saint. The dance has a sacred significance for the sixty-nine fraternities involved, which are greeted in the streets in a euphoric atmosphere where the music of 7,000 musicians resonates. It is so owe inspiring that it is rightfully a UNESCO Wold Heritage event (Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity). The image venerated with dance and music is believed to have arrived in the city at the founding of the convent of the Mothers of the Sacred Conception on the 8th of December 1663.

After several days of various shots and compositions I finally relented and chose this image.

5 nudes attempting a carbon print effect with black and white film

I've looked at this window and it has given me the possibility to look at light changing hour to hour and day to day.

The Embassy of Brazil in London and the Association of Cultural Attachés of Latin America, Spain and Portugal, in partnership with Itaú BBA and People’s Palace Projects (Queen Mary University of London) have selected the image above as one of 30 for the prestigious VIA ARTS PRICE 2018. The exhibition will be open to the public between 14th December and 31st January, Monday-Friday (10am-6pm). At Sala Brasil Gallery 14 – 16 Cockspur Street, SW1Y 5BL Hope to see you there! Javier

I decided to move away from my confort zone and take photographs of people along the Thames south side, although there were crowds, I could not see them, my eye went for what I can see.

As in all my work, it begins one way but then it ends somewhere not too far...

As in all my work, these images are a vision that holds that geography as a reference, they are more in relation to the imagined and what appertains to a memory or recollection which might not exist even though it is present and manifests itself in the photographs.

Serkhe Khollu is a mountain within a section of the Andean Cordillera, Serranía de Murillo, Department of La Paz, Bolivia