Marco Castro

What is the cHURCH? | Marco Castro’s website

June 12, 2016
11:00am

Join us as photographer Marco Castro discusses his work at the cHURCH.

Marco Castro was born and raised in México City, where the mixture of cultures gave birth to the nation that we know as México. His grandmother was the last in my family who spoke fluent Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs. Due to the racism in those days, she never taught her daughters the language, and therefore, his family lost their cultural heritage. Castro has been involved, however, with the indigenous world, even though he does not believe this happened by coincidence.

Castro considers himself a photojournalist with a humanistic approach; he has an opportunity to rapidly built rapport with his subjects allowing him to break the barriers of language and culture, opening the doors for him to get a glimpse at their experience of daily life and activities. Taking advantage of the old school and the digital imagining, Castro take the Previsualization of an image as taught by Anselm Adams with the algorithms of the new digital era and combines them to enhance what he sees and experience at the moment of capture.