Photoactivism, empathy and the politics of affections. Interview with SADO photographic collective.

Abstract

This interview is a product of the dialogue with SADO, a photographic collective from La Plata City. This group’s practice and production with Argentine photographers, shows the unpublished ways in which contemporary photography is part of today's complex reality. Through the constitution of practices that cross the documentary, the poetic, the horizontality, the self-management, the affective and the social, their production and actions are installed on the border between art, activism, and photojournalism. The decision to erase individual identities and the abandonment of personal authorship in pursuit of a collective voice and gaze is one of its most important bets. Interest in macro-political issues coexists with a strong inscription on regional problems, articulating demands of immediacy, street, and life stories. It’s images address issues from different perspectives, such as work, gender, sex-politics, territory, memory and human rights, migration, and agroecology, among others.