Latin America Professional Award 2024 Shortlist

Resistance explores the broad idea of resistance by highlighting the personal stories of the individuals featured in these portraits. Blending documentary photography with artistic genres, each set-up is inspired by the individual journey of its subjects, recorded in interviews in which they speak very openly about their lives. All of these stories shed light on a different, yet universal, idea of what resistance can be. In the difficult context of Colombia’s Cauca region, where the images were taken, I believe that this work can help create empathy and lead to more peace, which a country like Colombia desperately needs. The aesthetic of the series is based on mixing patterns and colours from traditional Colombian designs in an effort to neutralise the socio-political background of each subject.

Mathias Maumont Perafan is a French and Colombian artist. His work is mainly developed in the field of artistic and documentary photography with a focus on social, cultural and aesthetic issues. Mathias Maumont Perafan studied Geography at the Sorbonne in Paris. He was born in 1990 and grew up in the city of Cognac, France, but also lived in Canada and now in Colombia.