Jaime Travezán, Morgana Vargas Llosa, and David Tortora
July 5 – 28, 2013
“We believe in the necessity to open a dialogue and to awaken curiosity within people about each other’s diversity. The project is an invitation to explore without prejudice and stroll around a plural city, whose houses and streets are a mirror of the entire world.”
Mírame, Lima is a series of 50 family portraits aiming to reflect the cultural, ethnical, religious diversities present within the Peruvian capital. Partly as a result of insecurity, street violence, lack of information, people in Lima tend to live very isolated from each other, in small groups from which they rarely emerge. The aim of the project is to encourage integration and respect between citizens and to do so with a positive, optimistic tone in order to avoid conflict and controversy. To open a dialogue and to awake curiosity within people about each other’s diversity. The project is an invitation to explore without prejudice and stroll around a plural city, whose houses and streets are a mirror of the entire world.
Mirame, Lima is a project by photographers Jaime Travezán and Morgana Vargas Llosa, with the collaboration of artistic director David Tortora.
Jaime Travezan started his photographic career as a photojournalist, later adding to his interests fashion and portraiture. As a reporter he has covered topics such as the war in Kosovo. As for his fashion and portrait work, this has been published in magazines worldwide, including Elle and Vogue. He has won numerous international awards and has been nominated Photographer of the Year 2012 by the British magazine Professional Photographer.
Morgana Vargas Llosa has worked as a photojournalist since 1996 mostly as a free lance photographer for the Spanish newspaper El País. Her projects have included reportages from Ecuador, Albania, Kosovo and Israel/Palestina where she covered the retreat of Israeli troupes from Gaza. Most of her work has been published in El País and EPS magazine. With her NGO “Desvela”, she tries to bring to light social issues in need of wider promotion, within her home country, Peru.
David Tortora is an art director and graphic designer. Educated as an architect in Italy, he continued his studies in London specialising in the design for digital media. After many years working within the art and fashion industry, his work has gradually focused on photography. In 2009 he teamed with photographer Jaime Travezan in a collective named Jeff orGina, together they’ve been awarded many international prizes.
www.jaimetravezan.com