Carla Herrera-Prats is a graduate in Fine Arts from the La Esmeralda National School of Painting and Sculpture in Mexico, as well as a master’s degree in Photography from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).
She taught at the The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and directed the summer program Soma Summer in Mexico City. She has also been on the teaching staff at CalArts, in the Department of Visual Studies (VES) at the University of Harvard and at Cooper Union in New York.
The teaching of the history of photography in the United States, Mexico and other Latin American countries has been her main area of interest in recent years, dedicating herself to compiling a body of work from various artists and photographers who also teach the subject in their various countries.
Her contribution to MDE11 is related to this work. Based on a series of conversations with photography teachers in Medellin, Herrera-Prats has produced a series of panels that the teaching, production and consumption of photography in the city to be visualized.
Her interest in gathering together this material stems from her curiosity in understanding the approaches adopted by those teaching the history of photography, which is in turn reflected in the canons that characterize the photographic medium in a given place, or in what she calls the “the visual alphabet of a community”. This work allows her to study the way in which knowledge is transmitted and preserved.
Website
www.carlaherreraprats.com
Links of interest
www.camelcollective.org
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