Mexican photographer José Luis Venegas’s work includes a series depicting high society weddings in Tijuana.JOSÉ LUIS VENEGAS‘Untitled’ (1995), from the series ‘Internos’ (Inmates), is one of the most powerful images in ‘Latin Fire.’CARLOS SOMONTE‘Volando bajo’ (Flying low, 1988). The violence of Latin America’s dictatorships, guerrillas, gangs and street protests are all included in a highly diverse collection of photographs.PABLO ORTIZ MONASTERIOMexican photographer Yvonne Vegas shows how the upper classes of her country enjoy themselves in pieces such as this, entitled ‘Alejandro en toro mecánico’ (Alejandro on a mechanical bull, 2006).YVONNE VENEGASA man refuses to be evicted from his home in Buenos Aires in 2000.DIEGO LEVY‘Boda en Coyoacán’ (Wedding in Coyoacán, 1983). The Anna Gamazo de Abelló collection is considered one of the most important private archives of Latin American photography in Europe.PEDRO MEYER‘Untitled’ (1991), from the series ‘Ese tiempo en el que vivimos en peligro’ (These times in which we live in danger), which portrays wealthy men with the guns they have bought to protect themselves from robbers.JORGE DEUSTUABarricades being set up as part of a 2001 street protest in Buenos Aires against government austerity measures.EDUARDO LONGONI‘Untitled,’ from Peruvian photographer Nicolás Torres’ series ‘Chicha,’ which documents life in the working-class Lima neighborhood of Carretera Central between 1990 and 1994.NICOLÁS TORRES
