Art

MAPPING CULTURAL SPACES
26 Aug, 2015 | Megan Sunderland
Making Bolivian Culture More AccessibleThe Centro Cultural Torino, located on the upper balcony of Hotel Torino on Socabaya Street, is a small salon with a series of vintage patterned armchairs. The b...

Flaviadas
28 May, 2015 | Emily Cashen
PHOTO: ALEX AYALAStrolling down Avenida Ecuador early on a Saturday evening, you may very well be greeted by the sound of a Bach melody floating on the breeze. Following this symphony will lead you th...

Grafitti
28 May, 2015 | Eliza Wood
PHOTO: ELIZA WOODWhen Martha Cajías' mural entitled "The Kallawga" was vandalised in February, several people took to social media to publicise their outrage. The mural located on La Avenida Sánchez L...

TURNING UP THE TEMPO
27 Apr, 2015 | Jenny Dinwoodie
Bolivia Clásica School of Music helps young musicians take to the international stage Even before the clarinet had reached his lips, I knew I was about to witness something special. It was his...

LA PAZ LEARNING
27 Apr, 2015 | Emily Cashen
Our intrepid reporter samples various educational opportunities around the city TANGO Following 40 minutes of fervent map-consulting and wrong turns, I finally arrived at Casa Argentina—just six bl...

THE TALE OF THE MISFORTUNATE FOX AND THE MOUNTAIN
24 Feb, 2015 | Sophia Vahdati
Be true of heart, persevere, and all your dreams shall come true.Damsels in distress will eventually be saved by rich, attractive gentlemen.Mother-in-laws are evil by their very nature. PHOTO: MI...

HUANCARANI
24 Dec, 2014 | Jonathan Mccarthy
The women from Huancarani have to traverse four hours of mountain to get to Independencia, the nearest town, where you still can't get hold of a refrigerated soft drink. They don't have a Facebook acc...

SAXOMAN Y LOS CASANOVAS
24 Dec, 2014 | Carlos Sanchez Navas
‘You know that Américo came? He's friends with Superman, Wonder Woman, the Fantastic Four and Iron Man . . . . Saxoman and the Casanovas, that’s my boy, brother.’ Forty-three-year old Américo Esteve...

SIN MOTIVO
24 Dec, 2014 | Manuel Seoane and Samuel Rendon
Photo: Juan Manuel Lobaton , courtesy of SINMOTIVO PHOTOGRAPHERS www.sonmotivo.com Like most good stories, this project began on a night out. Initially, the objective was to share one ph...

A PEOPLE WITHOUT MEMORY IS A PEOPLE WITHOUT HISTORY
24 Dec, 2014 | Adriana Murillo
‘Bolivia has gone through incredible eras: the War of The Pacific, the Chaco War, and many other dramatic periods. Incredible photographs have been taken of all of these times,’ says Bolivian photogra...

GUMO
24 Dec, 2014 | Sophia Vahdati
Photo: Daniel Oros Alvaro Gumucio Li (Aka Gumo), a born and bred cochabambino, started his professional career as a photographer four years ago. He studied at the Instituto Eduarlo Lareda in...

MICHAEL DUNN
24 Dec, 2014 | Sophia Vahdati
In 2006, Michael Dunn had left Bolivia and was studying business in New York where he enrolled in a photography course. His life then changed its course as he quit his business career to pursue photo...

PHOTOGRAPHY IN AN AGE OF VISUAL CONTAMINATION
24 Dec, 2014 | Alejandro Loayza Grisi
Cables, advertisements, meaningless graffiti; posters, billboards and political propaganda: these are only some of the things that mark our urban landscape in La Paz. Practically every wall or stree...

CAPTURING BOLIVIA
24 Dec, 2014 | Vicky Roberts
The contrast between movement and stillness When Bolivia comes to life, it sparkles… For myself and many, one of the most fascinating things about Bolivia is the juxtaposition of tremendous natura...

THE DARK ROOM
24 Dec, 2014 | Alex Ayala Ugarte
Photo: Juan Gabriel Estellano The dark room where Juan Gabriel Estellano manually develops some of his photos is much more than a humid and stagnant place where someone could turn out the lights...