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Teaching Artists
Joana Toro
Teaching Artist
Joana Toro is a self-taught Colombian photographer whose work explores immigration, human rights, and identity. Her work has appeared in The New York Times,The Wall Street Journal, World Press Photo Witness, Open Society Foundations, and Photoworld China Magazine. In 2019, she published Hello I Am Kitty (Tragaluz, Colombia), now part of the Library of Congress collection. Her work has been showcased in international photo festivals, including Les Femmes s’exposent (France), Photoville (New York), Guate Photo (Guatemala), Just Another Festival (India), and the International Photography Festival (China). In 2020, she received the Eyewitness Photojournalism Grant from the Pulitzer Center and a National Geographic COVID-19 Fund grant. In 2023, her Translatina series was exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York's Photography Triennial.
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Sarah Alvira
Teaching Assistant
Sarah Alvira is a Latina filmmaker and a proud Bronx native. She graduated from SUNY Purchase College in 2022, where she earned a BA in Arts Management and double-minored in Screenwriting and Film Production. Sarah has done programming and curation for the Bronx Documentary Center and the 2024 New York Latino Film Festival. She currently works as a freelance photographer and videographer.
Alexa Pacheco
Teaching Assistant
Alexa Pacheco is an 18-year-old photographer from the Bronx, New York. She was a student at the Bronx Documentary Center for six years before graduating and becoming a teaching assistant. She currently attends the Fashion Institute of Technology, where she studies photography. Her work focuses on documenting communities within New York City and telling their untold stories through her art.
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The BDC Youth Photo League is made possible, in part, by the H.T. Ewald Foundation, Henry Nias Foundation, Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation, The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation, Open Society Foundations, The Pinkerton Foundation, The Rea Charitable Trust, The Rea Foundation, The Lawrence Foundation, The New Yankee Stadium Community Benefits Fund
All digital photos taken on DSLR cameras were taken with equipment generously provided by Fujfilm.
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