ANDRÉS YÉPEZ

photographer + anthropologist

By Andrés Yépez — Part of ten finalists of The Everyday Projects 2021 Grant.   In a new effort to help provide this vital support, The Everyday Projects is awarding two grants to photographers to work on a long-term project in their community. In addition to receiving $6,000 each, these two grantees will receive one year of mentorship as they continue their proposed project. More than 450 photographers...

By Andrés Yépez — Assignment for tech publication Rest of World with text by Devi Lockwood. Unlike many other technologies that are intended to help people, assistive technology changes lives; but until companies recognize its potential, proposals and innovations will stay at the fringes. May 20 was Global Accessibility Awareness Day, and Rest of World wanted to ask about the future of assistive technology...

By Andrés Yépez — The vast majority of the world's young people live in developing countries. How has the pandemic affected their everyday lives and future prospects? Bistandsaktuelt has talked to young people in seven countries. Året vi mistet: – Vi har gått hverandre på nervene

By Andrés Yépez — Featured among other latin photographers. Founder of Native Agency, Laura Beltrán Villamizar, takes a look at a celebration of Latin American photography at PHmuseum, which offers a chance to discover an eclectic assortment of artists disrupting clichés of the region. See more in the link below. LatinAmericana - Photographs by various artists | Essay by Laura Beltrán...

By Andrés Yépez — Photographed Health employees and patients of Quito Sur Hospital. In Ecuador only 26 hospitals are authorized to treat patients with COVID and this hospital is the sentinel.  You can see more in the link below. Quito: pacientes por covid saturan la atención hospitalaria - Pie de Página En Ecuador sólo 26 hospitales están autorizados para atender a...

By Andrés Yépez — Thankful for the chance to get inspired, learn and share with storytellers around the world. The National Geographic Storytellers Summit brings together inspirational and influential photographers, filmmakers, illustrators, and journalists to celebrate the art of storytelling and its ability to connect us and inspire change. National Geographic Storytellers Summit National Geographic...

By Andrés Yépez — One of the 42 latin photographers presented. This first sale is dedicated to celebrating, discovering, and supporting photography from Latin American, where the PHmuseum platform was launched back in 2012. The PHmuseum Editions is a new initiative conceived to let you discover, collect and invest in many of the best contemporary photographers’ iconic images at an affordable price....

By Andrés Yépez — Part of collective exhibition "The connected World: 2020". The exhibition will both portray the significant changes that COVID-19 has wrought on the worldwide fabric of society, and address the changing consciousness around systemic racism and police brutality worldwide. In response to the extraordinary changes occurring in 2020 the Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP) is...

By Andrés Yépez — NPR National Public Radio asked the photographers who work with Everyday Projects — contributing to Instagram accounts from countries in Asia, Africa, Central and South America, North America and Europe — to document how people are reinventing rituals in the age of COVID-19. PHOTOS: How The World Is Reinventing Rituals Religious services. Birthday parties. Movie nights. Our...

By Andrés Yépez — Edge of Humanity Magazine is an independent nondiscriminatory platform that has no religious, political, financial, or social affiliations.  We are committed to publishing the human condition, the raw diverse global entanglement, with total impartiality.   Photographer and Anthropologist Andrés Yépez is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of this photo...

By Andrés Yépez — Part of a collective exhibition with Fluxus Foto Collective presented by UNDP in the 9th year of the Photoville festival in New York. The world faces an unprecedented threat from COVID-19. It is more than a global health crisis–it is a socio-economic crisis, which has exacerbated existing inequalities and created new inequalities that are hitting the most vulnerable people the hardest....

By Andrés Yépez — FOTODEMIC is an online platform established in response to the coronavirus pandemic that has profoundly altered normal life on a global scale. Through public  programs and the curation of innovative  work , FOTODEMIC creates an open space for the exploration of different visual strategies. Our aim is to raise questions about present-day events, reflect on an uncertain future, and...

By Andrés Yépez — Este ensayo fotográfico del colectivo  @Fluxus_Foto muestra las desigualdades sociales sobre el acceso a la educación primaria en el contexto de la pandemia por COVID-19. â € El ensayo, que ganó el fondo de emergencia para periodistas de National Geographic, fue hecho para visibilizar también cómo maestros, estudiantes y padres de familia de distintos...

By Andrés Yépez — This call revolves around the theme Back to the streets , that is, how to return to normal life after the confinement to which we have been subjected due to Covid-19. More than a hundred images were received from all over the world: United Kingdom, Mexico, Brazil, Russia, Japan, Italy, Cuba, New York, Iran, etc. All the photographs received will be edited in a video that can be seen on the...

By Andrés Yépez — On April 30th, the Board of Directors of the Eddie Adams Workshop voted unanimously to hold the Workshop remotely this year. The virtual Workshop will take place as scheduled on Columbus Day weekend October 9-11, 2020. The Eddie Adams Workshop is the only tuition-free photojournalism seminar of its kind. Applicants at the start of their career submit portfolios for consideration. One hundred...

By Andrés Yépez — Galería de fotos del proyecto "Educación por Whatsapp" parte I y II. Este trabajo del colectivo de fotógrafos y fotógrafas Fluxus Foto fue apoyado por el Fondo de Emergencia por COVID-19 para Periodistas de National Geographic Society. "Educación por WhatsApp": historias sobre cómo se aprende en Ecuador durante la pandemia -...

By Andrés Yépez — El colectivo de fotógrafos y fotógrafas Fluxus Foto presenta su proyecto “Educación por Whatsapp” mediante el cual visibilizan cómo es el acceso a la educación primaria en la provincia de Pichincha durante la emergencia sanitaria. Junto con el apoyo que recibieron del Fondo de Emergencia por COVID-19 para Periodistas de la National Geographic...

By Andrés Yépez — In a series of colourful and mystical portraits, Andrés Yépez draws upon colonial influences to capture the hopes and fears of young people living in the La Chiquitanía region of Bolivia. Andrés is an Ecuadorian photographer and anthropologist. Through his work, he develops works related to issues surrounding identity, memory and relations between humans and...