Jorge Panchoaga’s metaphorical images focus on how memory consists of both reality and imagination, and how it forms an important part of the way we make sense of reality and the ecosystems we inhabit. As a National Geographic Explorer, Panchoaga is developing themes related to memory in high mountain areas; he is also independently developing a long-term project on drug policies implemented in Latin America through the reconstruction of silenced memories and local and popular culture that has resisted, transformed, or adapted to illegal economies. He has been author and co-author of a number of works, including the photobook OMEN: Phantasmagoria at the Farm Security Administration, and he is the director of the multiplatform project “Dulce y Salada.” The founder of CROMA Taller Visual, Panchoaga is also part of VIST Visual Is Telling and is a Fujifilm X-Photographer. His awards include an Emerging Talent Award from LensCulture, among others.
