NEW YORK, NY –  Join us Wednesday, February 19th, for a conversation with Argentinian Photographer Pablo Piovano, whose work centers the Mapuche indigenous community of South American Patagonia. Through his images, learn how green colonialism has affected the Mapuche people and how they continue to persist.  

Pablo will be joined in conversation by geographer Dr. Sarah Kelly and Mapuche-Williche painter Ragko.

Mapuche means "people of the land." It is the name of the native people that ancestrally inhabits South American Patagonia. That people resisted the Spanish invasion from the 16th century and then the formation of the states of Chile and Argentina, which committed a genocide at the end of 1800 that has not yet been recognized by official history. Currently, Mapuche communities rise up on both sides of the Andes Mountains (Argentina and Chile) to defend water and land against the advance of oil, forestry, hydroelectric and mining industries.

Since 2018, the photographer Pablo Piovano has traveled through this region portraying the daily life of the communities, the process of cultural and territorial recovery of these people and the conflicts that occur in those territories.

Bio
Pablo Ernesto Piovano was born on the 7th of September 1981 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has been working as a documentary photographer since the age of 18. He collaborates with various international media, including Geo, Stern, Liberation and L'Expresso. He won the World Press Photo Award in 2024 and the National Geographic Explorer Fellowship in 2023, among other prestigious awards: Henri Nannen (2018), Greenpeace (2018), Philip Jones Griffiths Foundation (2017), Manuel Rivera Ortiz Foundation (2016), among others. His work has been exhibited in the most important museums and festivals in Europe. He is the author of the book "The human cost of the agrotoxines".