BIO
Carlos Andrés Bernate Martinez is a documentary photographer - photojournalist and visual artist, he has worked for various social causes, moved by passion and social sense, has formed its criteria from the thorough research he has done.
He has exhibited several times his photographic work in galleries both nationally and internationally like the “Second Pinhole Showroom” at the University Jorge Tadeo Lozano in Bogotá (2012), the Audiovisual Documentary Showroom “Un mundo de color bajo tierra” during the XVII Mountain and Speleology Week in Bogotá (2014), the “Documentary Photography Showroom TPIF” at A Seis Manos in Bogotá (2014), the 21° Latin American Documentary Photography Contest “Los Trabajos y los Días” in Medellín (2015), expositor on “Narrativas Documentales Contemporáneas” at the University Jorge Tadeo Lozano in Bogotá (2015), expositor in “Shot, First Contest of Documentary Photography and Graphic Reporting with Mobile Devices” at the University Jorge Tadeo Lozano in Bogotá (2015), the exposure “Mujer Faltal 2016” at the Gilberto Alzate Avedaño Foundation in Bogotá together with a colective directed by the artist Matilde Guerrero and the support of the “Red Comunitaria Trans” in the Santa Fe neighborhood with the protection of IDARTES and the Mayor´s office of Bogotá (2015), the exposure Photo Patagonia “I International Festival of Analogue Photography and Alternative Processes” at Santa Cruz Cultural Complex in Río Gallegos, Argentina (2016) and the winner of the “Festival INstantes” that will exhibit in Avintes, Portugal (2017), has written and published his work in various circulating media widely known throughout the country and abroad like Pacifista (Vice Colombia), Vice Colombia, Revista Semana, Revista Arcadia, Reconciliación Colombia, Revista Semana Sostenible, Regional Special Revista Semana, Publimetro (Metro News Paper), Agencia Plano (Brazil), The City Paper and FuriaMag.
Also has contributed to international agencies like NurPhoto (Italia), Pacific Press Agency
(Filipinas), Depo Photo (Turquia), Agencia de Cronistas Gráficos (Ecuador), Agencia
Plano (Brasil), Agence France-Presse (AFP), Associated Press (AP), Agencia EFE, Getty Images.
Together with a multidisciplinary group, he has created the project Tejiendo Memoria, which cares about the current situation in his nation, Colombia and attempt to generate spaces where they can share their work and contribute positively to the construction of memory. To him his personal project is to use photography as testimony of the silenced.
