Hay Festival Arequipa 2023 – Photography

Daniel Mordzinski (Argentina), known as the “writer’s photographer”, has created a body of photographic work and an aesthetic closely linked to literature and its mystique: from his first photos of Jorge Luis Borges in 1978, including hundreds of writers who have passed in front of his camera, and with over 15 years of work linked to the Hay Festivals. He will talk about his extraordinary career, which has been built up at the frontier of images and words. In conversation with Jorge Jaime Valdez.

Alonso Ruiz Rosas is a poet, cultural manager and founder of the UNSA Cultural Centre in Arequipa, among other projects; he and Juan Carlos Belón, an accomplished Arequipan photographer based on France, will talk, among other matters, about the importance of artistic and cultural questions, and about Sin interés aparente, the exhibition of Belón’s work that is being shown at the UNSA Cultural Centre.

We celebrate ten years of the Hay Festival in Peru with the publication of a commemorative book, which compiles 15 memorable conversations that captured the interest of the public as part of the festival. We talk to the book’s editor, Dante Trujillo (Perú), the author Jeremías Gamboa (Perú), the photographer Daniel Mordzinski (Argentina), the author Karina Pacheco (Perú) and the journalist Clara Elvira Ospina (Colombia) about the positive and inspiring effects of the conversations that the Hay Festival Arequipa has made possible in the decade it has been running. Introduced by Cristina Fuentes La Roche.