Catalogue of Visual Artists from Latin America and the Spanish Caribbean in the UK

Nicolas Garrido

Peru // London

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Artist Statement

My work sits at the intersection of documentary, conceptual, and fashion photography, using elements from each to reflect on identity, territory, and the relationship between humanity and its environment. I am interested in how cultural memory, material processes, and everyday gestures can reveal forms of knowledge that persist outside dominant narratives. 

I work primarily with analog photography, which I understand as an affective and unstable archive. For me, analog processes allow the image to exist not only as representation, but as a physical trace shaped by time, chemistry, and matter. In recent years, I have incorporated alternative photographic techniques such as Van Dyke printing and experimented with organic materials, allowing natural processes to intervene in the image. These methods emphasize photography as a tactile practice and transform each photograph into a unique object.

Much of my work engages with ancestral crafts, traditional technologies, and forms of embodied knowledge in Latin America that remain present yet are often overlooked, folklorised, or detached from the communities that sustain them. Through long-term projects, I seek to create a dialogue between memory and experimentation, where photography becomes a space to question how we inhabit territory today and how images can carry traces of lived experience beyond the visual. 

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