Liliana Merizalde
Women Photograph
Bogota, Colombia
Colombian documentary photographer and visual artist based in Bogotá. I'm interested in identity, memory and territory issues generally linked to women and their strength. I usually mix documentary photography with staging based on life stories used as a vehicle to deepen the way in which social, political and community situations are documented and understood. I have done commissioned and on assignment work for different projects and NGO's like: Netherlands Cadaster for their project Land In peace, Victus (a peace construction lab through art and theater tools with former members from different illegal and legal armed groups involved in Colombian armed conflict) created by Casa E Social, Warchild Holland, Fundación Batuta (I was hired to do a tour all over Colombian borders and document in writing and photography the work of this organization which teaches symphonic music to children and teenagers who live in complicated areas of the country) , Casa E and Secretaría de la mujer, Fundación Solidaridad por Colombia, among others. I have also worked in films like Embrace of the Serpent, where I held the positions of second assistant director, still photographer and made a behind the scenes documentary.
I have participated in collective and solo exhibitions in Colombia, Peru, Spain and the United States. I'm part of Women Photograph Database. My commissioned and personal work has been published in Americas Quarterly, VICE Colombia, Moviemaker Magazine, New York Times, Cooties Zine, Fotoféminas (insta account), Fotomeraki, Colombia Arte Actual (31 contemporary artists) and Cartel Urbano, Revista Bocas, Semana Rural, among others. I have given some cinema and photography workshops with Festival Ambulante, Fundalectura and Universidad Nacional de Colombia and in different parts of my country.
