Camila Falquez is reclaiming her Colombian heritage through photography:
. “My Colombian roots are hidden in a long story of immigration,” she says, pointing to the ways in which new arrivals must adapt their identities to new cultures in order to survive. After arriving in New York at age 21, Camila could begin to reclaim that which had been lost, thriving in a community with local Colombians who embraced their shared heritage. Dancing to Colombian music, Camila felt her true self emerge, no longer needing to erase or reshape the way she presented to the world.
By simply bearing witness to the radiant display of being and refusing to conform to oppressive ideologies, Camila and her sitters are collaborating on a radical act and offering new paradigms for living one's truth. “I feel so honoured to have their truth because they know these have this power, and it is very dangerous for them to exhibit it with so much pride,” she says.
In this way, it's almost as though Camila's subjects choose her, and not the other way around. While travelling through La Perla,, in February 2021, Camila saw Liz Vanette dancing bomba, an ancestral dance of the enslaved. “It's not even a performance — it's a drumming circle on the street. The person dancing is the one guiding the drummers. As they move, the music changes.”
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