Bio
Hugo Zelada-Romero is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and photographer. He received his BFA in Photo Media from Wichita State University in 2020. Hugo is of Guatemalan heritage and his experiences as a first generation immigrant inform his artistic world view. Hugo has exhibited nationally and has been published in various alternative process and photography magazines.
Artist Statement
Latin-American people often carry histories and stories imparted to them by their families about their homeland. The stories told throughout childhood are beautiful, shocking, and eerie. Some of them being biographical and others from folklore, retold with missing segments and new inventions in place of absent representations. In this series, I combine diasporic narratives, both tragic and sublime, in order to reconcile the gaps of my own family history and lost narratives of those that have passed on.Follow Hugo-
Instagram @foto_graphia_hugo | www.hugozeladaromero.com
Images Copyright of the Artist
Nightmare at the door, a feverish story
Asleep on the bus I had a dream of all my mothers
We climbed down from the trees, afraid but upright
The Same River Twice
Rifle sight and what grows to cover the eye
Who made the water and the creatures that live there
A tooth once extracted can never be reseeded
Passport portrait of the artist and his Mama Mari
The Lady of Tikal
Pre-hispanic weeping woman
