Elizabeth Moreno
(Mexico)Elizabeth Moreno Damm has worked as a visual storyteller in Baja California Sur, México, since 2008. Her documentary work has focused on themes regarding rural life in the peninsular sierras’ and coast, as well as the human transformed landscape in this territory. Her photographs have been showcased in different cities in México, United States, Spain, France, and Chile, and has obtained awards like Daylight Photo Awards (work in progress 2010) and the Jury Prize at El México de los Mexicanos II (2014). Her book Cerca de la Tierra (Close to the land, 2019) was self-published through a federal Mexican Award (FONCA/CONACULTA). She was a film photographer at “La Recua”, documentary awarded and selected in several film festivals in Mexico and the U.S. At the moment she is based in La Paz, where she owns a fine art printing studio and combines maternity with her love for visual storytelling.
ConnectUmbra
“Umbra” is a photographic series about inhabitants of rural areas in the Baja California Peninsula (México), who suffer from preventable vision impairments that lead to partial or total blindness. Some causes of their health condition are overexposure to sunlight without protection and not being able to receive proper timely treatment because they live in very remote areas. Through portraits of people with this kind of eyesight condition, juxtaposed to landscapes that portray the harsh, bright and high contrast desert and coastal environment where they live, I aim to make this health issue more visible.
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