Madre tierra

Madre Tierra

Yolanda Andrade, Federica Belli, Jean-François Bouchard, Persia Campbell, Tyler Goldflower, Lluvia Lazo, Julien Lombardi, Leigh Merrill, Bob Schalkwijk y Tiago Valente

“Earth, grant us abundant life and full existence! Give us a green and fresh path; and may there be peace and tranquility upon your face.” Popol Vuh (Mayan culture)

Mother Earth celebrates our origin, temple and refuge with analogue, digital, staged, objectual and documentary works by a group of established masters and multi-awarded young artists of photography.

The exhibition explores the landscape and nature of our planet in relation to humankind, with artwork that makes extensive use of the photographic medium.

To accompany these works, we offer a blink to the careers of the artists who draw the landscape of this Mother Earth:

In the work of master artist Yolanda Andrade (Bellas Artes Medal in Photography INBAL- Mexican Ministry of Culture, 2024), Mexico City’s landscape — where the human blends with the urban — evokes a public stage scenery open to the viewer's discovery.

From the Italian artist Federica Belli (BNP Paribas Photography Award, 2021), we include: As Fluid as a Woman, with profound images of the Mediterranean on analog Ciba-Chromes; and The Dance of the Cenotes, in which her body merges with the Riviera Maya.

The cinematographic images of The New Cubans, by Jean-François Bouchard (reviewed by The British Journal of Photography and Art Forum), showcase the evocative landscape of the Caribbean island in which nature prevails.

The staged photography of Persia Campbell (1st place, International Photography Award IPA-NYC 2021, National Art Creators System 2023 y 2026), depicts the territory of the border between Mexico and the United States with conceptual images, masterfully employing color.

Tyler Goldflower (New York) after studying in the Arts Institute of Chicago, currently based in Mexico City, she travels the world drawn to ancestral cultures. In her analog self-portraits —printed on stone, photographic paper or seaweed fiber sargassum fiber she creates herself—her skin merges with the substrates, generating unique sculptural pieces that evoke timeless relics.

Kanit Low is the series by the outstanding young Oaxacan artist Lluvia Lazo (2023 Leica Award and member of Mexico's National System of Art Creators), created in close collaboration with the florists of her native Zapotec land.

In the work of Julien Lombardi (winner of the Commande Photographique Centre National des Arts Plastiques, France award), the celestial bodies manifest as radiant entities. His triptych, Terraformation, brings together his photographs of the Sonoran Desert Biosphere Reserve with the Sun in ultraviolet light obtained by the NASA and European Space Agency orbiter, with an exceptional use of lenticular format.

From Leigh Merrill (a photography professor at the University of Texas whose work belongs to the Fine Arts Institute, Houston), we present Collecting Forest: meticulous digital collages made with hundreds of photographs she has taken on extensive trips to the forests of the United States, to explore the idealization, degradation, and preservation of the environment by humankind.

From the established master Bob Schalkwijk (INAH Photographic Merit Medal and INBAL Medal recipient, a human treasure with more than 70 years of experience), we show exceptional vintage analog-cibachromes, from his iconic Tarahumara series. His gentle and attentive gaze towards the land reveals the indigenous peoples as the promise of the future, rooted in their ancestral heritage.

Tiago Valente (whose work has been exhibited at the Guggenheim Bilbao, Aesthetica Future-Now Top Artists 2015, and collaborated with Climate School of Columbia University, Parsons and The New School) premieres Cartografía Muxe, A photo-textile series where tradition and technology intertwine like threads, based on the personal and collective memories of who portrays and is portrayed.

The Mother Earth exhibition is a tribute to the generous planet that shelters us all and is revered by all cultures of humanity.

ALMANAQUE fotográfica | February, 2026