johanvorellana@gmail.com

Brooklyn, New York, US
Machala, El Oro, Ecuador
Bolaños de Calatrava, Castilla-La Mancha, España

Editioned prints are available. Catalogue upon request.

Available for long term commisions and story assigments.

Recommended reading list:

· Orientalism by Edward Said.

· El beso de Judas by Joan Fontcuberta.

· Art on My Mind: Visual Politics by Bell Hooks.

· Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay.

· Decolonising the Camera: Photography in Racial Time by Mark Sealy.

· Civil Imagination: A Political Ontology of Photography by Ariella Azoulay.

· La cámara de Pandora. La fotografí@ después de la fotografía by Joan Fontcuberta.

· Photography’s Orientalism: New Essays on Colonial Representation by Ali Behdad and Luke Gartlan.

Recommended watch list:

· Banana Land: Blood, Bullets, and Poison by Jason Glaser and Diego Lopez.

· Yi Yi by Edward Yang.

· Black Girl by Ousmane Sembène.

· The Battle of Algiers by Gillo Pontecorvo.

· La Jetée by Chris Marker.

· Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios by Pedro Almodóvar.

· ¡Átame! by Pedro Almodóvar.

Self-portrait, 2026

JOHAN ORELLANA