Salon #46 – Claire Felicie & Mauricio Toro Goya

Thursday, 17 October 2019: 10×10 hosted a Salon with photographers Claire Felicie and Mauricio Toro Goya at the Magnum Foundation.

Claire Felicie gained international praise and recognition for her portraits of young Dutch marines, before, during, and after their deployment to Afghanistan –  published as Here Are The Young Men (2009-2010). Since then she has focused on the military profession and the psychological impact of war. She traveled several times to (post) warzones such as Iraq and Afghanistan. Felicie has published four books of her work: three of them are self-published; one a completely handmade leporello, Daughters of the Sun – Female Peshmerga Fighters. Currently, Claire is working on a project about the seventy-five years of liberation in post-WWII Europe.

Mauricio Toro Goya lives in Altovalsol, Chile. At an early age he was mentored by Sergio Larraín. Mauricio has had more than forty individual and collective international exhibitions. And his work has appeared in twenty-four books – his 2015 book, Milagreros, was featured in 10×10’s Contemporary Latin American Photobooks, aka CLAP!, anthology. His awards include a Fondart scholarship in Chile, a Conaculta scholarship in Mexico, and a Magnum Foundation scholarship. In 2016 and 2018 Mauricio was selected for the New York Times Annual Review. The work of Mauricio is defined by the use of early photographic practices, mainly ambrotypes, and a revisionist vocation for the Latin-American religious iconographic tradition. Mauricio’s work exposes the brutality and violence that history hides – oral tradition, legends, and myths are his sources of inspiration.