Karla Gachet

Karla Gachet is an Ecuadorian visual storyteller, curator, and educator based in Los Angeles. For the past 20 years, she has documented Latin America and its diaspora. Her work focuses on stories connected to migration, gender, and Indigenous rights, as well as cultural expressions—such as music—and the relationships between body, territory, and belonging. Through her National Geographic Explorer grant, Gachet has led this project, which has taken shape through public space exhibitions across several countries in Latin America, activated with communities through workshops, zines, screenings, and gatherings, giving back to the people and territories that made this work possible.

Karla Gachet es una narradora visual, curadora y educadora ecuatoriana radicada en Los Ángeles. Desde hace veinte años documenta América Latina y su diáspora. Su trabajo se centra en historias vinculadas a la migración, el género y los derechos indígenas, así como en las expresiones culturales—como la música—y los vínculos entre cuerpo, territorio y pertenencia. A través de su beca de National Geographic Explorer, Gachet ha liderado este proyecto, que ha dado lugar a exposiciones en espacio público en varios países de América Latina, activadas junto a comunidades mediante talleres, fanzines, proyecciones y encuentros, devolviendo las historias a las personas y territorios que hicieron posible este trabajo.

Ivan Kashinsky

Ivan Kashinsky is a Los Angeles-based photographer and writer with over a decade of experience living and working in Latin America. Much of his storytelling has focused on culture and the impacts of globalization and consumerism on people and the environment. Kashinsky has immersed himself in many long-term documentary projects, including a story about a homeless community on the Los Angeles River, which was published in the Los Angeles Times and received the Community Awareness Award in the POY competition. Ivan also published Project Mi Barrio, a photobook documenting social and environmental change in a neighborhood where he lived near Quito, Ecuador.

Ivan Kashinsky es un fotógrafo y escritor radicado en Los Ángeles, con más de una década de experiencia viviendo y trabajando en América Latina. Gran parte de su labor narrativa se ha centrado en la cultura y en los impactos de la globalización y el consumismo sobre las personas y el medio ambiente. Kashinsky se ha inmerso en numerosos proyectos documentales a largo plazo, incluida una historia sobre una comunidad de personas sin hogar a orillas del río Los Ángeles, la cual fue publicada en el Los Angeles Times y recibió el Premio a la Conciencia Comunitaria en el concurso POY. Ivan también publicó Project Mi Barrio, un fotolibro que documenta los cambios sociales y ambientales en un barrio cercano a Quito, Ecuador, donde residió.

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