Sharon Castellanos
(Peru)Peruvian photographer based in Cusco city. She has worked +four years as a press photographer for a newspaper in Lima city and as a correspondent in Cusco and Puno regions (Peru). Since 2015, she works as a freelance photographer. Her most recent personal and collective projects have focused on farming and environment, according to diverse contexts. As part of her photographic practice for storytelling, she integrates other resources such as video, animation of still images and web implementation.
ConnectThe Reading of the Environment
Droughts, delayed rains and intense frost affect the farming in the Andes. A visual inventory will show how by decoding specific natural signs through observation, some master farmers can present weather forecasts in order to take measures to prevent harvest losses. The imagery will aim to be an invitation to see our environment as a semiotics of nature and a space that promotes the encounter between scientific research and other sources of knowledge.
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From the Judge
Yasuyoshi Chiba
“I believe the word “Andes” evokes a sense of eternity because of the existence of the ancient civilization. Re-creating and designing images of the ancestral knowledge should be the best “challenge” of this year. I will put my maximum expectation on this.”
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