Juan Orrantia

Juan Orrantia (b. Bogota, Colombia) works on long-term nonfiction projects that explore the evocative possibilities of documentary photography. With a background in cultural anthropology and documentary studies, his series also rely on sound, text and diary narratives, as ways of addressing questions of intimacy, memory, violence and the everyday. He has produced works on the aftermath of terror in Colombia, the residues of war and colonialism in Mozambique, Burmese refugees in the US, and nostalgia in ports of the global south. Awards include the Tierney Fellowship in Photography as well as various grants and residencies at research institutes. He has exhibited in South Africa and Colombia, and participated in various group shows including the New York Photo Festival, Bonani Africa Festival of Photography, and Ethnographic Terminalia (New Orleans).