Welcome to Intipucá City
Washington D.C. Metro Area • Koral Carballo, Anita Pouchard Serra, Jessica Ávalos
From the 2021-2022 We, Women nationwide exhibit.
About the project
Welcome to Intipucá City is a collaborative transmedia project that uses images, drawings, and words to reconfigure the imagery of Salvadoran migration to Washington D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. Through past and present stories, this project seeks to change the image of Central American migrants stigmatized by hate speech and to show the complexity of trans-national identities through their life stories. For We, Women, they created a series of workshops and installed work in businesses run by the Salvadoran community in D.C. to honor people’s pride of being a migrant. Additionally, they’ll produce a zine about the process, dialogue, and encounters between the Salvadoran community and non-Latino communities. The artists seek to give back to and maintain a dialogue with this community that has shared their stories with them since 2017.
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About the artists
Koral Carballo is a Mexican photographer who tells stories related to identity, violence, and territory while dissolving frontiers between photojournalism and the visual arts. She is the recipient of the Catchlight Fellowship (2021), POY LATAM’s 2nd place Nuestra Mirada Award (2021), the Woman Photograph and Getty Images grant (2019), an Open Society Foundations Moving Walls 25 Fellowship (2018), and received first place in the Latin American Photography Colloquium portfolio review (2017). She organizes the festival of documentary and journalistic photography Mirar Distinto in México, which she founded in 2014. She is currently part of the collective Ruda.
www.koralcarballo.com • @koralcarballo
Anita Pouchard Serra is a visual storyteller, photojournalist, and educator based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her transdisciplinary practice explores topics of personal significance such as migration, identity, territory, and empowerment using tools from drawings to performance. Her work has received the support of the Pulitzer Center, National Geographic Society, the International Women’s Media Foundation, and Open Society Foundations' Moving Walls 25. Her work has been published and exhibited internationally. Since 2014, she has taught photojournalism and visual storytelling.
Jessica Ávalos is a Salvadoran journalist whose writing focuses on access to justice, human rights, migration, and victims of violence. She received a fellowship from the Columbia University School of Journalism (2017), a grant from the Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (2009), and a grant from the International Women’s Media Foundation (2016). She is a 2018 Open Society Foundations Moving Walls 25 fellow.