Tatiana is an Ecuadorian photographer and visual anthropologist whose practice is rooted in the narratives that the body and the land trace and the role memory plays in the construction and deconstruction of identity. Through her work, she incorporates the body as a medium of expression or an analogy to territory. Tatiana’s methodologies are guided by Indigenous animistic practices, the body-territory relations in connection with indigeneity, and the study of the human and the other-than-human kin relationships through dreams. For Tatiana, photography is her journey of self-discovery, connection, meditation, understanding, and transformation.
At the core of her practice, she hopes to incorporate collaborative methods of storytelling and creatively use photography and filmmaking as powerful tools to raise awareness about environmental issues, equality, and women’s rights.
Her first ethnographic film essay “Naku Ikinyu” received the audience award from MAAN (Muestra de Anthropología Visual de Madrid) 7th Edition-2021, and it was selected as one of two winners of the 2021 Graduate Student Award for Outstanding Work offered by The Society for Visual Anthropology (SVA).
