9th LATIN AMERICAN FOTO FESTIVAL 2026

BDC Annex - 364 E 151st St

July 9, 2026

July 26, 2026

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The Bronx Documentary Center (BDC) will hold its 9th annual Latin American Foto Festival (LAFF) from July 9-26, featuring large-scale photographs by both emerging and established, award-winning photographers. Their work will be displayed at the BDC and throughout the South Bronx’s Melrose neighborhood.

This year’s Festival brings together long-term photographic projects from Latin America and the Caribbean that explore urgent social, environmental, and political realities while highlighting resilience, memory, and collective life. The exhibition includes work from Peru, Chile, Brazil, Mexico, Guatemala, Venezuela, Colombia, Puerto Rico, and Argentina, addressing themes such as environmental destruction and extractive industries, Indigenous land and spirituality, migration and displacement across the Americas, and community-led forms of care and resistance. Several projects also draw on archives and personal histories to reflect on how memory is preserved and shared across generations. The Festival also includes a special homage to the late Puerto Rican photographer Ed Alvarez, whose work, made between Puerto Rico and the Bronx, is presented in recognition of his contribution to Caribbean and diasporic visual culture.