Frequently Asked Questions
We love featuring as many Latina/e photographers as possible in as wide a variety of styles and specialities.
Things we think about when featuring photographers:
- Is this work strong?
- Is there consistent strong work in their portfolio/on their social media posts?
- Does this photographer help us meet our goal of featuring a diversity of photographers across specialities, geography, and Latina American heritage at this moment?
We reach out to photographers who meet this criteria and to photographers who have expressed an interest by sending us an email at hola [@] ourlatinalens.com.
Can’t wait to feature more work!
As a national community of photographers we would love to have events across the country! We are open to collaborative meetups. If you would like to host a meetup in your city, get in touch at events [@] ourlatinalens.com and let’s see if we can make a collaboration happen.
Yes! We need resources including funding to create our visions. Visit our funding page to find our list of grants and opportunities for photographers (organized by the month the grants/opportunities are due). If you are part of our paid membership, you will also have access to our grant workshop, planner, and full grant list updated monthly.
Our founder had several uncomfortable and even unpleasant experiences in other photo communities and wanted to make sure she created a space not just for her but for others who had been made to feel uncomfortable and invisible in the ways she had as a proud, second-generation, Puerto Rican woman. Hence centering the experiences and needs of U.S.-based Latina women and gender-expansive folks. There didn’t seem to be a community that centered this community when she was seeking what she needed, so she founded Our Latina Lens.
We know that labels attached to identity are complicated if not impossible, frustrating, and limiting. And, our community needed a name. The aim of this community is to serve women-identifying and gender-expansive folks who have cultural roots in Latin America. The term Latina may resonate with you and it may not. If the preceding statement is one you connect to, then you are welcome. Within our community we will honor how you want to identify. We aim to create a welcoming and safe space to connect and grow as creatives and professionals so we can increase each other’s visibility in the photography industry.