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How do we relate to photography today?

In a turbulent social and media landscape, photography seems to be gaining strength as a means to represent an end that appears to have no end. Territories are exploited, and the everyday must continue; routines push us toward individualism, and so we move forward without questioning what surrounds us. Social media increasingly absorbs us and draws us into a digital reality that becomes more ephemeral and accelerated with each passing day.

This new edition, which we are publishing again after a two-year hiatus, is an invitation to pause and look at the landscape, to rethink our relationship with images, and to explore their potential.

In this spirit, we present Constanza Bravo Granadino, whose seemingly documentary work from the field challenges us to consider how we think about our own relationship with space, borders, and flags.

On the other hand, Catalina de la Cruz's work opens the door to her editorial and material experiments with photography, allowing us to explore new paths in photographic representation.

Claudio Albarrán's work transcends any documentary possibilities, taking us on a visual and sensory journey that embraces fiction. Meanwhile, Seba Mejía confronts us with the territory itself and the way we inhabit it in Chile's great capital: Santiago.

The selected artists for this call for submissions, Josefina Astorga and Cristóbal Parra, present authentic works that raise new questions about photography and its potential.

We also present Querido Papá (Dear Dad), the photobook by Jahir Jorquera, which allows us to consider photography from the perspective of intimacy and the relationships that can be reinterpreted over time.

We close this edition with the text by Sergio Valenzuela-Escobedo, which invites us—or rather pushes us—to go further with photography, to situate ourselves and question what we are looking at as visual information.