Lexi Parra

Documentary Photographer, Visual Storyteller, Community Educator
   
#CuentosdeCuarantena: Experimenting in Storytelling from Home
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#CuentosdeCuarantena: Experimenting in Storytelling from Home
Copyright Lexi Parra 2024
Updated May 2020
Topics Conceptual, Covid-19, Documentary, Domestic Violence, Emotion, Experiment, Featured Film, Freedom, Gangs, Hope, Latin America, Mixed Medium, Pandemics, Photojournalism, Quarantine, Reporting, Venezuela
This series of diptychs, videos + collages are a reaction to the difficult layers of reality during quarantine in a country already plagued by violence, hyperinflation + political polarization.

Venezuela is unlike any other country in dealing with COVID-19: we have corruption by state bodies, a failing economy making quarantine nearly impossible for many + world leaders adding insult to injury with sanctions that are having a very real effect on our population.

While I am lucky to stay home, Caracas is a context we get by in because of our people - our relationships, friendships. So the distance has an impact. Friends have been sharing stories - some of the little joys, others of the constant faint stress + even more of the explosions of violence/uncertainty that is happening in some of the more infamous barrios. These visual experiments are a way to deal with the distance, show these timely, important stories safely + authentically .... collaboration in quarantine.

This work was featured in Fotodemic Quarantine Diaries and exhibited in Mirar Distinto, virtually in Veracruz, Mexico.

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