Join IPHF's Elizabeth Sanjuan in conversation with curators and photographers, Fabian Goncalves & Rafa Cruz, as they discuss IPHF's latest photo competition, Earth Stories, Landscape and Human Activities. You can learn more about this exciting new competition juried Fabian and Rafa here at this link.

Fabian Goncalves Borrega opened the Art Museum of the Americas’ OAS F Street Gallery in 2005, as a space dedicated to contemporary photography, where he has curated and organized numerous photography exhibitions. For over 20 years he has reviewed portfolios for prestigious institutions including the Houston Photo Fest, Buenos Aires Festival of Lights in Argentina, Porto Alegre Fest Foto in Brazil, Foto Lima, Peru and Foto Espana Transatlántica, Foto DC in Washington DC, Photolucida in Portland Oregon, the Biennale of the Santo Doming in the Dominican Republic, and most recently with artists and photographers from San Salvador in El Salvador Central America.

In addition to his own considerable photographic work Fabian has been an exhibit coordinator at the Art Museum of the Americas AMA since 1998 where he oversees the curation of exhibitions including the loans of art works, lighting and installation.

Rafa Cruz began his career as a commercial photographer in his beloved Puerto Rico. He developed his craft as a portrait artist, photographing more than 200 weddings, working with companies such as Hilton, Doubletree, Embassy, Esposa Moderna Magazine, Airbus, FotoFest and the Latin Chamber of Commerce of Washington, DC.

Since 2016, he has worked with the AMA | Art Museum of the Americas of the Organization of American States (OAS), Washington, DC, photographing hundreds of modern and contemporary artworks of the Americas for art criticism books, archival databases, exhibition catalogs, and other publications. He travels frequently, documenting cultures near and far from an anthropological, spontaneous, human perspective.