The annual Latin American Foto Festival (LAFF) features work by Latin American photographers exploring powerful and important topics. This year's festival, which runs from July 13-30, will include topics such as missing persons and femicides in Mexico; indigenous people's rights in Colombia; trans rights; Cuban youth exodus; Feminist demonstrations in Chile; the effect of Peru’s mining boom on rural communities; Afghan migrants’ journey the US through South and Central America; Venezuela seen through young girls’ eyes; women soccer fans; Afro-Bolivian music Saya; and Latino and Caribbean contributions to Hip Hop culture in the US.
The festival is free and open to the public with exhibitions both indoors at Bronx Documentary Center and outdoors in the South Bronx’s Melrose neighborhood. Film screenings, panels, book talks and cooking workshop, annual block party will take place during the two weeks of the festival; here's the full schedule.
