Elevate Your Photography Skills at Cuentos Reframed Summit!
A 3-day immersive experience for photographers and content creators ready to elevate their art, business, and cultural impact.
Join us July 26-28, 2024, in vibrant Chicago for a transformative journey that will:
- Amplify your unique voice and perspective in the world of photography
- Boost your confidence in client connections and storytelling
- Unlock new funding sources and business opportunities
- Connect you with a diverse community of passionate creatives
This inclusive summit, brought to you by Our Latina Lens and Elevating la Cultura, welcomes all photographers and content creators eager to make their mark.
Come and be part of a transformative experience where we redefine who tells the stories captured through the lens.
Enhance your confidence and abilities to connect with clients, craft compelling narratives, and take impactful actions in your art and business – all while staying true to your unique perspective. Embrace the value and strength that your culture, background, community, and lived experiences bring to your photography.
Elevate your photography skills, discover new funding opportunities for your projects, engage in discussions about the future of the industry, and network with like-minded photographers and creatives.
Learn more about the Summit
What you will receive
Narrative Shifting
Photo Intensives
- Engage in three photo-focused intensives led by expert fotógrafas
- Enhance your ability to connect with clients and convey stories through your visuals, whether focusing on people or products
- Put what you have learned into practice in a group photo session and an afternoon photo walk
Thrive, Fund and
Future proof Workshops
- Immerse yourself in healing sessions to ground yourself
- Explore funding opportunities and the application process
- Discuss the industry’s future and strategies to adapt and thrive amidst changes
Community and
Creating
- Enjoy connection, cafecito, and creating in community
- Join a photo walk in the picturesque city of Chicago
Ready to elevate your photography game and connect with a vibrant community of creatives?
Secure your spot at the Cuentos Reframed Summit today!
Reviews from Past Workshops
“During the Mentorship workshop, it was very insightful to have two photographers from two different industries. For someone like myself who is unsure of what path to choose, I was able to reflect on who I connected with the most! I was motivated to sign up by the fact that the workshop involved Latinx/Latine trailblazers!”
Liliana
Don’t miss this chance to reframe your narrative, elevate your skills, and join a movement of photographers changing the face of the industry. Your unique perspective is your superpower – let’s amplify it together at Cuentos Reframed Summit.
Limited spots available. Reserve your ticket today!
Shifting the Narrative Photography Instensives
$575
✓ Creating Safety and Comfort with Veronica Amador
✓ Posing and Directing for Conneciton with Adri de la Cruz
✓ Cultural Stories without the Stereotypes with Karina Mora
✓ Sunday Photo Walk
Thrive, Fund, and Future-Proof: Sustainable Creativity Workshops
$125
✓ Soundbowl Session
✓ Cultural Nuance: Our AI-Resistant Superpower Roundtable
✓ Somatic Work for Creatives
✓ Sustainably Funding your Creative Vision
✓ Sunday Photo Walk
All-Access Pass
$675 (save $25)
✓ Friday Intensives
✓ Saturday Workshops
✓ Sunday Photo Walk
Gracias to our sponsors including:
Neuro-Yoga Institute
6457 W Archer Ave, Chicago, IL 60638
Classes, Sound Healing, Groups
and Instructor Training
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Meet the Speakers
Veronica Amador
Veronica is a Mexican American photographer specializing in intimate portrait work. With a personal and gentle approach, she captures the essence of each individual, ensuring their true personality and emotions shine through in every image. She is dedicated to creating a safe and supportive environment, fostering authentic connections with her clients, and allowing them to express themselves freely; resulting in emotive and captivating photographs.
Adri de la Cruz
Adri is a Mexican born and raised immigrant now living in Chicago. Adri is a family photographer in Chicago with a hybrid love for documentary and lifestyle images that convey nostalgia and art.
Chicago, Illinois
Izzy Gandarilla
Izzy Gandarilla is the founder of the Neuro-Yoga Institute and its certified training program. Her aim is to help individuals on their journey to achieve their best state of health through a connection of mind, body and breathe. She is a bilingual and vegan chef, author and has developed yoga programs for the Spanish-speaking communities of Chicagoland.
Dahlia Quintanilla
Dahlia is a first-generation, Chicana-Indigenous certified somatic movement healer and the founder of Liberated Learning, an organization dedicated to transforming learning environments to be restorative and healing-centered through community-based solutions.
Meet your Hosts
Our Latina Lens
Mónika Aldarondo
Mónika is a second-generation Boricua photographer, podcaster, creative consultant and founder of Our Latina Lens. She belives in people’s inherent capacity and need for creativity, and wants to cultivate taking up creative space in the Latine community.
She was an arts educator for over a decade including leading the Senior Grant Program at Boston Arts Academy.
Mónika will lead the Funding Your Creative Vision workshop on Saturday.
Elevating la Cultura
Karina Mora
Karina is a photographer, and podcaster with Elevating la Cultura®. She hopes that by elevating conversations with other Latinas, their stories can develop a deeper understanding of their experiences, and empower others with their own entrepreneurial and overall life choices.
She is also a speaker and workshop facilitator, educating about Mexican culture, calling out stereotypes, and helping people reclaim their cultural legacies.
Karina will lead the Friday Photo Intensive on communicating product-based brand stories.
FAQs
Our Friday photography intensives are focused on how you tell stories and interact with people and products in front of your camera. As long as you know how to operate your camera, and no one will judge you for having it on automatic, you will gain skills in communicating and connecting that will serve you for years to come.
Saturday’s workshops will be beginner friendly and meet participants where they are at.
Because we will be focused on storytelling and speicifically iwth a culturally concious lens, we beleive everyone can benefit from working with Adri, Veronica and Karina. Latina photographers are rarely invited to teach from their expertise, experience and cultural lens, so we believe there is something for everyone to take away from the experience.
Saturday will also be beneficial, unless you have unlimited funding and have no questions about how the industry is shifting with new technologies.
Friday, July 26th we will be at a studio located in Pilsen.
Saturday, we will be at a studio in McKinley Park.
Sunday’s meeting place is TBD.
Exact locations will be shared once you purchase a ticket.
Yes! We would love to have you as part of the Thrive, Fund, and Future-Proof: Sustainable Creativity Workshops day! You can select just the Saturday ticket. The Sunday photowalk is open to all participants.
The great thing is you can use any camera you have! Because we are not teaching technical aspects of photography, your camera can range in complexity. Film camera? Sure! DSLR? Absolutely. Mirrorless? Bring it along! My iPhone? Why not. Our main focus for the Friday intensives will be on connection, storytelling, and cultural narratives. As long as you know how to take photos with your camera, it will work.
On Saturday, bring a laptop or tablet to get the most out of the Funding Your Vision workshop.
It’s even better! You will have multiple teachers with multiple skill sets and perspectives. The phot intensives are limited because we want you to get hands on experience.
The workshops give you tools and insights to support your photography learning journey.
Sunday we learn in community. A photo walk is a casual and community based learning environment to practice and ask other questions.