Walter Hurtado
Bio
Walter Hurtado (1993), is Colombian from Barranquilla, has lived in Panama since 2009. He studied International Trade and Logistics at Universidad Latina de Panamá and Duoc UC in Chile. He works in documentary photography and photojournalism for media outlets like Bloomberg, EFE, and AFP, as well as for international organizations and social projects. He is also the cultural manager of the Narbona Collection, which holds over 2,000 artworks.
A self-taught and curious artist, he is part of the ARRABAL collective, which explores non-traditional exhibition spaces, and a member of Diversify Photo, a global community of BIPOC and non-Western photographers.
His work has been shown at the Alliance Française (2019), International Cultural Center (2022), Diablo Rosso (2021), ARRABAL (2022–2023), and the ICP in New York (2020). He has also led workshops and talks on collage and photography. He was selected for the MAC Panama Graphic Lab in 2023 and 2024.
Statement
My work focuses on observing and deconstructing the everyday to reveal what usually remains outside the frame: the fragmented, the marginal, the things that resist being named. Through photography, I document connections, bodies, and spaces in transformation, while collage allows me to break and reassemble realities. I'm drawn to that point of friction where the organic and the artificial coexist. I explore the visual as a territory of transit and memory, where cutting and assembling become acts of resistance. Guided by intuition, I investigate ways of seeing that overflow logic and embrace multiplicity.
Additional information
Este collage forma parte de una serie de cuatro collages titulada "Cuerpos"
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
