Liz Tasa
Peru
Artist and SMArtArtist's Career
Pictures to raise
Awareness on the challenges
Facing Mountain Regions
Pictures to raise
Awareness on the challenges
Facing Mountain Regions
The work of Liz Tasa revolves around social issues in Peru. She has developed several documentary projects that revolve around social exclusion, racism and human rights like forced sterilizations or the El Niño Phenomenon, both in Peru.
Based on a documentation work, the artwork of Liz Tasa poses a more sensory than a descriptive type of language. She usually works with a digital camera, LEDs and color photographs. Multimedia video as well as analog techniques such as the frames, technique of the artist Man Ray to make portraits, are also complementary medium of her work.
Education
From 2018 – Master of Photo Documentary at Centro de la Imagen, Lima, Peru
2012 – Communication at the University of Piura, Peru
Work experience
2018 – Photographer at Tres Mitades, a marketing and content management company
2016 – Photojournalist in Peruvian media Correo
2013-2015 – Photojournalist in Peruvian media Diario El Comercio
Prizes and achievements
2019 – Finalist in PHOTO IILA – XI Edition IILA-PHOTOGRAPHY « Gender Equality »with her project Kápar, Rome
2015 and 2017 – Twice finalist in the contest « Espacio y Tiempo »of the UPAO University
2014 – Finalist in the Eugene Courret national contest
Group exhibitions
2017 – « 58 Peruvian Photographers » at the Inca Garcilazo Cultural Center
2017 – « Portraits of the Family » organized by the Cultural Center of the University of Lima
2017 – « Self portrait of a Nation » at the Cervantes Institute in New York, United States
2017 – « Our eyes: The Emergence of Reconstruction » at the National Library of Peru and the exhibition
2017 – « Intolerance » at the Cultural Center of the University of Lima
