EXHIBITION 001 · PERU
Lives, histories, and futures.
A photographic exhibition.
Santa Rosa, Peru
Photograph by Erland NordenskiöldCollection / source: National Museums of World Culture
Peruvian Andes
Photograph by Verogonzalezlima
Lima, Peru
Photograph by Thomas Quine
FROM THE ARCHIVE TO THE PRESENT
Stay with a photographer for a few frames. Notice the distance, the gesture, the world around a face. These selections bring related photographs together before opening into the complete collection.
SELECTED PHOTOGRAPHS
A closer encounter with the people who made the images.
Lima · 8 March 2019
A street, a crowd, individual voices. Three photographs from the International Women’s Day march in Lima.
View photographsLima, Peru
Photograph by Lorena Flores Agüero
Lima, Peru
Photograph by Lorena Flores Agüero
Lima, Peru
Photograph by Lorena Flores Agüero
Junín · 2019
Work and everyday encounters in Chupaca and Ahuac, seen through one photographer’s pictures.
View photographsChupaca, Peru
Photograph by Thayne Tuason
Ahuac district, Peru
Photograph by Thayne Tuason
Chupaca, Peru
Photograph by Thayne Tuason
Santa Rosa & Ollachea · 1904–1905
A named portrait and a domestic interior, preserved by the National Museums of World Culture. The historical catalogue and the marks on the originals remain part of their record.
View photographsSanta Rosa, Peru
Photograph by Erland NordenskiöldCollection / source: National Museums of World Culture
Ollachea, Peru
Photograph by Erland NordenskiöldCollection / source: National Museums of World Culture
THE COLLECTION
Open a photograph for the full frame, its context and its source.
Peruvian Andes
Photograph by Verogonzalezlima
Lima, Peru
Photograph by Eugenio Courret
Pucallpa, Peru
Photograph by Aetheling1125
Quinta de El Pardo, Madrid, Spain
Photographer unknownCollection / source: Diario de Madrid
Paris, France
Photograph by Eponimm
Peru
Photograph by Eugenio Courret
Chiclayo, Peru
Photograph by Pitxiquin
Puno, Peru
Photograph by Benny Gross
Lima, Peru
Photographer unknown
Lima, Peru
Photographer unknownCollection / source: Congreso de la República del Perú
Peruvian Amazon; village unrecorded
Photograph by Joshua Martinez Z
Hong Kong
Photograph by Wongpong
Arequipa, Peru
Photograph by SirJoseMaria
Cusco, Peru
Photographer unknownCollection / source: Tekniska museet
Lima, Peru
Photograph by Lorena Flores Agüero
Peru; precise location unrecorded
Photograph by pclvv
Peru; precise location unrecorded
Photographer unknownCollection / source: Tekniska museet
Cusco, Peru
Photograph by atuqdearriba
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READINGS
Short readings on memory, authorship, and what passes between generations.
KNOWLEDGE & CONTINUITY
Weaving, teaching, and the patient work of carrying knowledge forward.
HISTORY & THE FRAME
What a portrait records, and the questions it leaves open.
AUTHORSHIP & MEMORY
Julia Chambi López and the work of preserving a photographic history.
The photographs accompanying these notes illustrate the exhibition’s themes. They do not depict the people or organizations discussed unless explicitly identified.
FURTHER LOOKING
Continue on the photographers’ and exhibition hosts’ websites. These independent projects are linked for discovery; their photographs are not reproduced in this collection.
Portraits made across Peru, assembled as a sustained photographic project.
An intimate series about Venezuelan women building lives in Lima.
Photography about plant knowledge and community care in the Peruvian Amazon.
A documentary essay on families searching for relatives missing after Peru’s armed conflict.
Documentary photography and the book Piruw, made with Musuk Nolte.
OUR PURPOSE
Women of Peru is an independent photographic publication about women’s lives across generations. We bring photographs into conversation with documented history, credit their makers, and make the sources easy to find.
This opening exhibition is a beginning. Our ambition is to work with women in Peru as photographers, writers, and editorial collaborators, and to grow through their perspectives.
This collection is a starting point, not a complete history. Some regions, communities and decades are represented more fully than others.
Independent organizations to explore. These links do not imply a partnership; any support goes through their own websites.
Take your time.
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