PHOTOGRAPHY OVERFLOWS AFTER 200 YEARS AT PINTA BAphoto

Photography turned two hundred years old in 2026. In 1826, Niépce took the famous image View from the Window at Le Gras. Years later it was perfected with the daguerreotype and, until the arrival of the avant-gardes, served as an instrument for the faithful recording of reality. Its relationship to art was merely that of a sketching tool. Two hundred years later, we see photography overflowing its boundaries, intersecting with performance, architecture, ethnography, painting, and territory. It has conquered spaces where the representation of reality is exhibited with even greater force because of its distortions, or where fidelity to reality no longer matters.

These intersections can be seen in the artists and projects presented at Pinta BAphoto 2026:

Photography + performance: Juan Gabriel Miño

Juan Gabriel Miño (Argentina) constructs scenes in his photographs from a cinematic perspective, working with framing, light, gestures, and situations. The images that emerge from his performance-based video works acquire autonomy; even so, they remain tied to a narrative, producing a tension between what they show and what they leave off-screen.

Photography + architecture: Florencia Blanco

Florencia Blanco’s (France) works are the result of research into the buildings of Bolivian architect Freddy Mamani Silvestre. Geometry and color are the protagonists of the photographs, which show the interior and exterior of two party halls in El Alto. The images the artist captures form a new architectural plan that reveals sacred Andean forms and their intersection with the psychedelic, the digital, and the Chinese.

Photography + social project: Proyecto Calle

Proyecto Calle is a photographic initiative that aims to give a voice to people living in vulnerable circumstances, which has at times led them to homelessness. Over 21 years, more than 350 people have photographed the city using cell phones and disposable cameras. The works are turned into books, exhibitions, and posters, and part of the money raised goes to the artists.

Photography + painting: Diego Moreno

Diego Moreno (Colombia) presented at Pinta BAphoto his photographs of rubble he found in Buenos Aires. The image takes form as painting on any surface. “In my works, I use light, the camera, and the technical tools of photography to create abstractions of the visible world, redirecting the photographic act toward an increasingly painterly territory,” the artist says.

Photography + territory: Walking Conurban

The Walking Conurban is a collaborative Instagram and Twitter account, run by Diego Flores and Guillermo Galeano, that since 2018 has been dedicated to capturing and compiling images of the Greater Buenos Aires conurbano. These are snapshots, mostly taken with cell phones, that build a visual cartography of contemporary urban identity: vernacular architecture, everyday ingenuity, creativity, humor, and ways of inhabiting the territory that are already part of Argentina’s cultural heritage. It is a collective work that reflects the social, cultural, and aesthetic diversity of one of the country’s most dynamic territories. Conurbano Style is an editorial piece produced by Oficina de Proyectos, bringing together 200 photographs selected by renowned artist and photographer Marcos López from an archive of more than 7,000 images from The Walking Conurban community.