| Dates: | 1974, 4 December - | | Born: | México, Guadalajara | | Active: | Mexico / Honduras / Panama / Venezuela / Brasil / Peru / Bolivia / Cuba / Dominican Republic / India / Mozambique / USA | | Website: | isaiasorozco-lang.net |
Contemporary socio-documentary photographer.
Artist statement:
Traveling between Latin America and the United States, during my childhood, I was conscious of the vast differences between the two societies. The loneliness I felt, as an only child with a single mother, growing up in California, would dissipate during my trips to Mexican towns where the streets buzzed with activity. I was able to join in games with the ubiquitous herds of local children and sit with the elderly hearing stories of the supernatural and times long past. As I grew older I became conscious of the difficulties that the people I appreciated so much were experiencing – that they were barefoot not by choice, the ferociousness of the work that they undertook, and the limitations of the children’s prospects for the future. I took up photography in order to communicate this experience. To show this reality in both its beauty and its difficulty.
While much of the photographic world has become ever more sophisticated and complex, I have chosen to portray the people and places that I visit with a simplicity of composition and content. In my depiction of moments that represent everyday activities, there is a directness and lyricism reminiscent of photographers of past generations – some of my favorites being; Milton Rogovin, Helen Levitt, Dorothea Lange, Mariana Yampolsky, Gordon Parks, Tina Modotti, and Roy DeCarava. Be it the quiet sensitivity of a child taking care of her sibling in Mozambique, a raucous game of marbles in a busy intersection in Mexico, or an aged man telling stories in The Dominican Republic, my photographs are, in fact, documents of places that remain much like the world where these classic photographers lived.
Isaías Orozco-Lang (March 1, 2007)Preparing biographies
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Isaías Orozco-Lang
Isaías Orozco-Lang was born on December 4th, 1974, in Guadalajara México. After spending his childhood in Berkeley, California, Isaías moved to NYC where he currently resides. Isaías' photographs depict everyday life in the developing world through street scenes and portraits from countries including; México, Panamá, Honduras, The Dominican Republic, Brasil, Venezuela, Perú, Bolivia, Mozambique, and India. In 2003 his monograph entitled "Glimpses of La Yagüita", a depiction of a Latin American barrio, was published to the praise of Sebastiao Salgado, Shelby Lee Adams, Robert Coles, and Julia Álvarez, among others. His work has also appeared in DoubleTake magazine and American Photo on Campus. Some of Isaías' photographs were acquired for the permanent collection of the Museo del Barrio in NYC.
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