“Documenting with presence, crafting with care.”
Documentary Photography: Visual Essays on Humanity
I explore the intersections of documentary photography, visual ethnography, and contemporary art to build narratives around social, cultural, and environmental complexities. My work is grounded in situated ethics and relational methods, using co-creation, montage, and sensory exploration as tools to expand what documentary can be. I focus on symbolic and material territories where tension, resistance, and memory take form. For me, documentary is not a fixed map but a shifting practice that asks how images can help us understand and transform the world.
Western Sahara: Exile Written on Their Faces, Algeria, Refugee Camps 2017 – Portrait by John Cuesta.
Tending the Horizon: Women and the Labor of the Planes, Casanare, Colombia 2021 – Portrait by John Cuesta.
Listening to the Forest: Ancestral Memory in the Amazon, Amazonas, Colombia 2024 – Portrait by John Cuesta.
Arcabuco, Where the Thread Binds the Land: Woven Memories from the Andes, Arcabuco, Boyacá, Colombia, 2023 – Portrait by John Cuesta.
No Land to Live, Only Water to Resist, Semporna, Sabah, Borneo 2025 – Portrait by John Cuesta.
Sindoor Jatra: When Vertigo Becomes Prayer, Thimi, Nepal 2025 – Portrait by John Cuesta.