MIRAME, LIMA
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Prize
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Photographer"JAIME TRAVEZAN", "MORGANA VARGAS LLOSA", "DAVID TORTORA", United Kingdom
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StudioJaime Travezán Studio
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Website
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Instagram
We're 8 millions and 432 thousands citizens in Lima, Peru. Do we look at each other? Do we really know who we are? With these questions in mind a photographic project has taken shape, aiming to discover and display our cultural diversities.
Mírame, Lima is a series of 50 family portraits aiming to reflect the cultural, ethnical, religious diversities present within the Peruvian capital.
Partly as a result of insecurity, street violence, lack of information, among other things, people in Lima tend to live very isolated from each other, in small groups from which they rarely emerge. With this project we would like to help to get to know each other better, to encourage integration and respect between citizens and to do so with a positive, optimistic tone in order to avoid conflict and controversy. We believe in the necessity to open a dialogue and to awake curiosity within people about each other's diversity. The project is an invitation to explore without prejudice and stroll around a plural city, whose houses and streets are a mirror of the entire world.
The families portrayed are anonymous. They could be distant relatives, our childhood's neighbours, the chinese restaurant's owner, the local tailor or the renowned fashion designer. Anyone of us could be included. All of these families have opened their houses to get to know them. Theyʼve picked their favourite objects and, as if in a theatre play, theyʼve performed their life story: who they are, their dreams and in what they believe. In many cases families have extended, embracing new members: working partners, friends or pupils.
Mírame, Lima is a collaborative project between photographers Jaime Travezan and Morgana Vargas Llosa with art director David Tortora.
Travezán began his photography career as a photojournalist, later expanding into fashion and portraiture. As a photojournalist, he covered major topics including the Kosovo War.
In fashion, his work has been published in magazines such as i-D, Vogue, and Elle.
As a portrait photographer, he has photographed personalities including Stephen Hawking, Pedro Almodóvar, Mario Vargas Llosa, Sting, and Trudie Styler.
Currently, he is primarily engaged in fine art projects. Beyond photography, his portfolio also includes music, GIFs, and video.
Awards ·First Place at the 2025 International Photography Awards (IPA), Fashion Advertising
·Silver Medal at the 2024 Le Prix de la Photographie de Paris (PX3), Fine Arts
·Gold Medal at the 2023 Le Prix de la Photographie de Paris (PX3), Advertising
·Silver medal at the 2019 Budapest Foto Awards (BIFA), Moving Images
·Second Place at the 2018 Moscow International Foto Awards (MIFA), Moving Images
·Second Place at the 2017 Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA), Moving Images
·First Place at the 2017 Le Prix de la Photographie de Paris (PX3), Fine Arts
·Grand Winner of the 2016 Fine Art Photography Awards (FAPA)
·Winner of the 2015 International Photography Awards (IPA), Food Advertising
·Winner of the 2015 PDN Photo Annual, Personal Category
·Photographer of the Year nominee at the 2014 Lucie Awards
·Advertising Photographer of the Year at the 2014 International Photography Awards (IPA)
·Winner of the 2014 PDN Photo Annual, Advertising
·First Place at the 2014 Le Prix de la Photographie de Paris (PX3), Fine Arts
·Work selected for exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery, London (2014 Saatchi Motion Photography Prize
·Work selected for exhibition as the 2014 La Gaîté Lyrique GIF Awards, Paris
·Winner of the 2013 American Aperture Awards, Advertising
·Winner of the 2013 PDN Photo Annual, Personal Category
·Work selected for exhibition in consecutive years (2012 and 2013) at the National Portrait Gallery, London, as part of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize.
Grand winner of the 2012 See Me Awards for Photography
·Highly Commended entry at the 2006 The Guardian Weekend Photography Prize, Photojournalism
