ESCUELA EFE

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Escuela Efe was born from the need to learn and teach about the gaze in Guatemala. In 2018, during the first generation of the Visual Training Program, a program that teaches us to see from different perspectives using photography as an observation tool, the Efe Photography School was launched, whose main objective is to teach us about our own gaze. and the first steps to develop it.

In 2019, it begins with the first annual photography course that ranges from knowledge of the technique to the development and exhibition of a personal project. The exhibitions of the students of the Annual Photography Course have been held at the Spanish Cooperation Training Center in Antigua and the UNIS-ROZAS BOTRÁN Museum. For 2022, the first promotion of Professional Photographic Certification is launched, as a continuation of the Annual Photography Course. In this Certification we invite international photographers residing in El Salvador, Brazil, Spain and Korea to give master classes. Part of the results of this promotion is the use of the students’ photographs in a FUJI-INSTAX campaign, Exhibition of 5 works at the UNAM in Mexico within the framework of the International Kaleidoscope Photography Meeting 2022 and Cuba in 2023. In just After 4 years of existing as an institution, Escuela Efe has graduated 110 people in the Annual Photography Course and Professional Photographic Certification. It is on this same anniversary that the Efe Collective, the CIRMA-EFE Collection and the Efe-photo Tour were launched.

Efe School of Photography and Image Center is more than a place where courses are taught. We are leaders of a movement that changes the future of photography in Guatemala.