In this episode, photojournalist Mabel Jiménez takes us into the circumstances when she created two of her images. The first is an image documenting a farewell ceremony for a mural in the Mission District of San Francisco. A ceremony that she shares encompasses so much more than just a mural. In her second images, a “Pinky Kiss” is a gesture of connection across the U.S.-Mexico border that is both a sign of intimacy between separated loved ones and symbolic of thousands of interactions that have happened at Friendship Park. A park whose closure is imminent, ending the possibility of even this tiny amount of physical contact. 

Image Tours are opportunities for a photographer to share some of their most significant images and take the listener behind the scenes of the images. This may include why or how they made the image, its personal significance, and/or the personal, social, or political context of the image.

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Mabel Jiménez

Website https://www.mabeljimenez.com/

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/mabel-jimenez-0a926b16/

IG https://www.instagram.com/mabeljmnz/

Article by Mabel for Tecolote about the Mission District mural

https://eltecolote.org/content/en/community-bids-farewell-to-iconic-mural/

Links about Friendship Park and to efforts to re-open and complete the vision for Friendship Park

https://www.friendshippark.org/

https://www.buildthatpark.org/

Video about Friendship Park

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhdUD3gORWI&t=2s

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What happens when you push back against journalistic objectivity? What role do community papers play? How does connection to community affect how you can tell a story? Photographer, photo editor and CatchLight Mentor Mabel Jiménez and host Monika Aldarondo discuss these questions and much more. Mabel shares her experience photographing asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border, her art residency documenting the COVID response in San Francisco and her family’s reaction to her choosing photojournalism as a career. 

Mabel Jiménez https://www.instagram.com/mabeljmnz

El Tecolotehttps://eltecolote.org/content/en/

https://www.instagram.com/eltecolotesf/

CatchLighthttps://www.catchlight.io/

https://www.instagram.com/catchlight.io/

San Francisco Arts Commission Covid Command Center Artist Residency (includes video presentation by Mabel)https://sfpl.org/events/2021/07/15/panel-artists-embedded-sf-covid-command-center 

San Francisco Library History Center- Covid-19 Time Capsulehttps://sfpl.org/locations/main-library/sf-history-center/digital-collections/covid19-time-capsule

Josué Rivashttps://www.instagram.com/josue_foto/

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In this episode, curator and author Elizabeth Ferrer discusses her research, book and advice for aspiring photographers and curators.

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Elizabethferrer.net

IG @evferrer

Get Latinx Photography in the United States: A Visual History

Info on Luis Carlos Bernal show curated by Elizabeth 

Epiphania  "Fanny" de Guadalupe Vallejo

Laura Aguilar

Laura Aguilar Vincent Price Exhibition

Karen Miranda Rivadeneira 

Maria Varela

80s 

Isabel Castro

Kathy Vargas in San Antonio

Deliliah Montoya

Maria Magdelena de Campos 

1990s

Christina Fernandez - LA    (Maria’s great expedition)

Elsa  Flores (70s Chicano history)

Perla de Leon (En Foco) 80s-90s Bronx Street Photography  

Susana Leval, director of Museo del Barrio

F stop gallery 

Aperture Latinx issue

aperture webinars 

Inside the "Latinx" issue with Pilar Tompkins Rivas and Elizabeth Ferrer

"Latinx" Conversation Series: Genesis Báez, Joiri Minaya, and Steven Molina Contreras

The Narrative Arc of Latinx Photography

Aperture Conversations: Celebrating Thalía Gochez and Las Fotos Project

Latinx Art Forum 

Veterana y Rucas, Guadalupe Rosales

Nuevorkinos

Laura Aquilar image- Three Eagles Flying

Delilah Montoya    

Casta Paintings 

Maria Martinez Cañas  

Martine Gutierrez

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Who is your favorite Latina or Latine photographer? Latina/e photographers have been contributing to the visual narrative of the United States for over a hundred years. These stories are rarely known. Our Latina Lens Podcast, hosted by Monika Aldarondo, elevates the work and stories of accomplished US-based Latina/e photographers across genres. 

Each photographer will be featured in two episodes. The first episode will explore their creative process and journey with photography. In a second episode, photographers delve deep into their most significant images. They share the political, historical, and/or personal context of the creation of their images and why, out of their archive of thousands of photos, they chose these photographs as their most significant. 

One photographer, two podcast episodes, an infinitely curious host and creative journeys that are often ignored by traditional media and the art world.