Latin American Foto Festival returns to locations across the Bronx, NYC for 2025
The Bronx Documentary Center (BDC) will hold its 8th annual “Latin American Foto Festival” (LAFF) from July 10th through August 3rd, 2025, featuring large-scale photographs by both emerging and established, award-winning photographers from the region. Their work will be displayed at the BDC and throughout the South Bronx’s Melrose neighborhood from July 10th-20th and at other community spaces throughout NYC from July 24th – August 3rd.
This year’s citywide spaces will include Loisaida Center in Manhattan, Terraza 7 in Queens, Toñita’s Caribbean Social Club in Brooklyn, and El Maestro Boxing Gym, Casa Amadeo, and Bronx Arts Space in the Bronx. As the Festival expands across other NYC boroughs, it seeks to elevate personal and collective narratives and to honor the cultural sites in NYC that have historically preserved and celebrated Latin American culture. In a city where development pressures continue to displace families as well as organizations that are community anchors, the Festival has become an important foundation for recognition, visibility, and memory.
This year’s Festival includes works from Puerto Rico, Peru, El Salvador, Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela and Colombia–photographs from long-term projects on the housing crisis in Peru; a young student collective based in a self-organized occupied settlement in Brazil; Venezuelans reverse migration back to South America; thirty years of the history of the Zapatista movement; a cooperative in Mexico resisting and confronting corporations; abandoned elderly citizens surviving on their own in Venezuela; life on a tiny island off the Caribbean coast of Colombia; stories from the Puerto Rican diaspora; photos of the Bronx and Puerto Rico from the past 50 years; incarceration and water crises in El Salvador; and archival images of a Caribbean social club in Brooklyn.
As part of the Festival, the BDC will hold in-person workshops, tours, panel discussions, and other community events in each space.
The “Latin American Foto Festival” is curated by Cynthia Rivera and Michael Kamber.
Outdoor vinyl exhibition prints are done by Photoville.
Wheat pasting is done in collaboration with DYSTURB.
The “Latin American Foto Festival’s” citywide events are organized in collaboration with The Action Lab.
Exhibitions on view as part of the “Latin American Foto Festival: “
July 10–20
Bronx Documentary Center: 614 Courtlandt Ave, Bronx, NY 10451
BDC Annex: 364 E 151st St, Bronx, NY 10455
Various indoor and outdoor locations throughout the Melrose neighborhood, South Bronx
July 24–August 3
El Maestro Boxing Gym (Bronx)
Casa Amadeo (Bronx)
Bronx Arts Space (Bronx)
Loisaida Center (Manhattan)
Terraza 7 (Queens)
Toñita’s Caribbean Social Club (Brooklyn)
More information at www.bronxdoc.org.
