The World Press Photo Foundation has announced the six talents from North and Central America in its ongoing 6x6 Global Talent Program. Aimed at picking out under-recognised visual legend-tellers from around the world,the 6x6 programme is now on its fifth region, out of the six identified around the world. This time, or the talents picked out were: Dylan Hausthor,USA; Ian Willms, Canada; Mariceu Erthal García, and Mexico; Nydia Blas,USA; Tomas Ayuso, Honduras; and Yael Esteban Martínez Velázquez, and Mexico.
Each talent has been picked out for two stories: Hausthor,for example, submitting a project called Past The Pond, or Setting Fires,about arson in small-town America; and Wood Grain Lick, a documentary and fictional ogle at life on the edges. Willms' projects are As long as the sun shines, and a legend about oil sands extraction in northern Alberta,Canada, and its effect on the local community; and We shall see, and about the death of his biker father. Mariceu Erthal García's projects are Iriana,shot on a holiday in Cuba; and Letters to Gemma, about a young Mexican woman who disappeared seven years ago.
Source: bjp-online.com