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William Camargo 🇵🇸

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HASTA QUE PALESTINA ESTE LIBRE 🇵🇸

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Me as Subcommandate Marcos, holding a Palestinian Flag after Gillian Wearing, 2024 on slidefilm assisted by @los_mperez . In Miriam Haddu’s essay titles Beyond the mask: image-making, resistance and photography in Chiapas. Miriam states the sense of wariness towards the camera when Zapatistas came into the spotlight in 1994, Marcos knew the implication of the photograph. Especially for indigenous people. “Over the last decade this awareness has led to the gradual appropriation of the process of image-making on behalf of the photographed subject. In similar vein, this process has become recognized as an important politicized stance which has been adopted by members of the Zapatista movement in their efforts to re-appropriate the image and thus a sense of autonomy.” This was also an outtake of another image made but decided to include the Palestinian flag as a connection for to what being masked up with a keffiyeh is suppose to do, bring a sense or autonomy and as well as a connection to the EZLN unwavering support for Palestinian Liberation. If the history of photography has taught me anything is that photo can be a tool for oppression but as well as tool that can reimagine autonomy to oppressed communities. The image can be a weapon. As Gillian has photographed herself as icons of photography lets not forget the impact that the Zapatistas have done in the field of photography. #largeformat #4x5 #slidefilm #chicanxart #latinxphotography by @billythecamera

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Brown Hand Pointing Towards White Structures/People and Institutions, Or If Taught in White Institutions This Photo Is Conceptual Only. 2024

Borrowed kay’s hand for this work. taken in Getty Center by @billythecamera

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re posted from @newyorkermag Today, Anaheim is best known as the home of Disneyland and the Los Angeles Angels. The photographer William Camargo (@billythecamera) recovers the city’s Indigenous and Mexican past and present by standing at seemingly unremarkable sites where he holds up signs that tell an alternative history. See more of his photographs at the link in our bio. #chicanx #contemporaryart #contemporaryphoto
Also who wants to show a good amount of the signage works in their institution? lol. Still currently in nyc finishing my residency at @penumbrafoundation working on a full monograph slated to come out next yr:) by @billythecamera

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Portrait of @_amandaflowers on my 4x5 camera. #artist #makeportraits #film by @billythecamera

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From the Camargo family archives, photo of me probably taken by my big sis in a park in Fullerton probably around 1992. #film #archives #chicanxart #latinxart #familyarchives by @billythecamera

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Another one from the festivities for Apostol Santiago in Tlacotepec, Guerrero this summer. #vscocam #blackandwhite #fujifilm #makeportraits by @billythecamera

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Portrait of the curator/artist and great friend @arxmirez in mexico this summer :) #chicanx #makeportrait #filmisnotdead #mediumformatfilm by @billythecamera

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Showing some work at @marksartcenter at College of the Desert, open now closing reception Oct 1. #vscocam #latinxart curated by the homie @luisantoniorodriguez_

@paintedrosy with the painting on the cover @godinez.studio @steveohlrich @artemixtlan_us @kariloz77 @lulusearth @sarah.vultuur @larryhemmerich @willisthegorilla
@billythecamera @dahnniii @elceballos__ @indio2nasst ,Isabel Rodriguez, Jasmine Reyes Vargas by @billythecamera

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@anaseverythingstore in downtown Santa Ana, shot on 4x5 earlier this year. #latinxart #shootfilm #santaana #vscocam #makeportraits by @billythecamera

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Grandparents house in Tlacopetec, Guerrero. #fuji #vscocam #guerrero #makeportraits #virgenmaria by @billythecamera

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Tlacotepec, Guerrero. July 25,2025 a scene from the celebration of señor Santiago el apóstol. Still looking through lots of film and images from my recent visit to my parents home state of Guerrero, it had been 13 years since I had been. #fujifilm #mexico #coloralamexicana #makeportraits #vscocam by @billythecamera

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Gracias to everyone that made it out yesterday night for our soft launch!
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The overwhelming feedback only solidifies our resolve to make this space a valuable resource for all latiné artists at every stage of their careers!!
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Stay tuned!
We look forward to seeing your work on our walls soon!! taken in Santora Arts Building by @billythecamera

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