{"id":1613,"date":"2025-10-07T17:06:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T17:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/federicoestol.com\/?page_id=1613"},"modified":"2025-10-27T13:23:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T13:23:46","slug":"artivismo-social","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/federicoestol.com\/eng\/artivismo-social\/","title":{"rendered":"Social artivism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1613\" class=\"elementor elementor-1613\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5d298c0 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"5d298c0\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1f46ea4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"1f46ea4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Social artivism<\/h5>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-012ba7d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"012ba7d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span lang=\"ES-AR\">In the early years of my career as a photographer, I earned my living working as a community activist and organizer for government platforms, especially the innovative<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opp.gub.uy\/es\/videos\/cosas-de-pueblo-un-relato-por-la-identidad-y-cultura-de-nuestros-pueblos\">Cosas de Pueblo<\/a> <span lang=\"ES-AR\">where we use participatory photography, among other actions, to promote a sense of belonging and identity in rural areas of Uruguay. The ultimate goal was to strengthen the social network and prevent internal migration from villages to large cities.<\/span><\/p><p><span lang=\"ES-AR\">This way of experiencing my practice with long-term processes, together with learning from my colleagues who are social workers, cultural managers, and anthropologists, and my own training as a popular educator, led me to implement the <a href=\"https:\/\/academiccommons.columbia.edu\/doi\/10.7916\/3ms6-em88\/download\">Liberation Pedagogy by<\/a><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/academiccommons.columbia.edu\/doi\/10.7916\/3ms6-em88\/download\"> Paulo Freire<\/a> <span lang=\"ES-AR\">to carry out processes of social transformation in my visual projects with a Latin American decolonial perspective.<\/span><span lang=\"ES-AR\">. <\/span><\/p><p><span lang=\"ES-AR\">Another methodological pillar that I currently use is the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/imaginaction.org\/media\/our-methods\/theatre-of-the-oppressed-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Theatre of the Oppressed by Augusto Boal<\/a><span lang=\"ES-AR\"> . Here, community fiction is conceived as a space for reinterpreting and reevaluating the current state of the world. It begins with a shared diagnosis of \u201creality\u201d and then creates a new one, with the aim of bringing about change and thus transforming the starting point. <\/span><\/p><p><span lang=\"ES-AR\">So, I set out to establish a method of visual narration for non-extractive photography, pursuing artivism (art + activism) as a practice, understanding that it is no longer enough to construct a visual narrative, also we must also be responsible for thinking about how the project will circulate and propose its activation <\/span><span lang=\"ES-AR\">at the place of origin<\/span><span lang=\"ES-AR\">\u00a0, ethically addressing common problems in society. <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e198797 elementor-widget elementor-widget-video\" data-id=\"e198797\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;video_type&quot;:&quot;hosted&quot;,&quot;autoplay&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;mute&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;loop&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"video.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-hosted-video elementor-wrapper elementor-open-inline\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<video class=\"elementor-video\" src=\"https:\/\/federicoestol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GIF.mp4\" autoplay=\"\" loop=\"\" muted=\"muted\" controlslist=\"nodownload\"><\/video>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ea54bc9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"ea54bc9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><br>BASICS OF SOCIAL PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTIVISM<\/h5>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-476d9fb elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"476d9fb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul><li>\u00a0<span lang=\"ES-AR\">We are all authors and produce the project collaboratively. <\/span><\/li><\/ul><div>\u00a0<\/div><ul><li><span lang=\"ES-AR\">Get involved as a creator in social struggles, exploring strategies for social combat using photography. <\/span><\/li><\/ul><div>\u00a0<\/div><ul><li><span lang=\"ES-AR\">Work alongside organizations or informal groups. A platform needs to be sustainable over time and should not depend on us to function. <\/span><\/li><\/ul><div>\u00a0<\/div><ul><li><span lang=\"ES-AR\">Create an artistic practice that works in your community, fulfilling a specific objective for the organization. The goal is to serve people in the short term and in their territory, and then disseminate it in the mass media, the global photography industry, and the art market. <\/span><\/li><\/ul><div>\u00a0<\/div><ul><li><span lang=\"ES-AR\">Photography at the service of society, using popular aesthetics to create an emancipatory fiction. We must make an impact in the territory of origin, as well as in art galleries and festivals, giving transcendence to the visual message created by the community. <\/span><\/li><\/ul><div>\u00a0<\/div><ul><li><span lang=\"ES-AR\">Time and rhythm of work should be determined by the social group, not the visual narrator; real participation requires a long-term commitment. <\/span><\/li><\/ul><div>\u00a0<\/div><ul><li><span lang=\"ES-AR\">The collective will have control over the editing and distribution of the project at all times. <\/span><\/li><\/ul><div>\u00a0<\/div><ul><li><span lang=\"ES-AR\">Generate a circular economy system by sharing the profits from any sale of the material produced, given that it is a co-authorship in exhibition rights, publication, gallery sales, and awards. It will be divided 50% for the social organization and 50% for the photographer, who will use their network of contacts, technical skills, and connections with the art market\/photography industry to raise funds. <\/span><\/li><\/ul><div>\u00a0<\/div><ul><li><span lang=\"ES-AR\">From the beginning, define with the organization how the funds obtained by the group will be destined and especially promote their use in improving a specific community need.<br \/><\/span><\/li><\/ul><div>\u00a0<\/div><ul><li><span lang=\"ES-AR\">Sign a social contract with the organization or group containing all the agreements of the process mentioned above.<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>En los primeros 15 a\u00f1os de mi carrera como fot\u00f3grafo, no solo me ganaba la vida con la imagen, sino tambi\u00e9n de trabajar como activador y organizador comunitario para plataformas gubernamentales; especialmente el innovador proyecto Cosas de Pueblo donde utilizamos la fotograf\u00eda participativa, entre otras acciones, para promover el sentido de pertenencia y la identidad [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1613","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/federicoestol.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/federicoestol.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/federicoestol.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/federicoestol.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/federicoestol.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":145,"href":"https:\/\/federicoestol.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2314,"href":"https:\/\/federicoestol.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1613\/revisions\/2314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/federicoestol.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}