Selfportrait 2020.
Selfportrait 2020.
My interest in photography is expanding the most essential relationship between narratives and documentary language. 

In 2015 I joined the Colombian news agency Colprensa, where I worked for two years covering national news, being able to portray the Peace Agreement between the National Government and the FARC Guerrilla in 2016. Parallel to this I made collaborations for Agencia EFE from 2017 to 2021. From 2020 until today I have done longer documentary work with a social focus that seeks to offer alternative narratives to the institutionalized ones. Part of this is the work with Agenda Propia (Latin American media of social ethnic issues in the region) Geo Lino (German children's magazine), Stranger's Guide (American magazine), Specialty Coffee Association (British magazine) and UNDP (United Nations Development Programme).

I took technical studies in photography in 2011, a series of advanced courses in photography during the following years, in 2018 I did part of the summer semester at the University of Hannover, Germany, for the International Documentary Photography Class, an advanced program that promotes new talents from all over the world and exchanges ideas with European photographers and in 2019 I did part of the IWMF Adelante program in investigative journalism in risk contexts.   
  
Diversify Photo since 2020. 
VII Academy Seminar I - 2022:                        
FINND 2022 Grant recipient Researching and New Narratives About Drugs from Fundación Gabo and Open Society Foundations.

Juan Páez Photographer

Colombian Freelance Photographer. Intersections between journalism and art. Portrait, documentary and editorial assignments. Opening agenda to 2023.
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