Jairo Nicolás Bernal

Jairo Nicolas Bernal (he/him, 2000, CO) is a photographer, interdisciplinary artist and political scientist. He belongs to the indigenous tribe of the Pasto, and lives and works in Ipiales, Nariño, in southwestern Colombia.

Bernal started studying photographic narratives of self-representation for indigenous communities at the National University of Colombia. Being the first educational space he formally accessed, he started defining his vision as a politically engaged photographer.