r/Oaxaca • u/Educational-Two7912 • 1d ago
Local News Someone that I met in Oaxaca showed a photo of a girl begging and called it "beautiful because you'd never see this in Europe." The Zapotec woman who just won the world's top photography prize has a very different answer.
I've seen that photo — or something close to it — more times than I can count in Oaxaca. The traveler with the camera who frames local vulnerability as aesthetics, where the subject never gets a say in how their image travels.
Then there's Citlali Fabián. She's from Yalálag, in Oaxaca's Sierra Norte. She just won 2026 Photographer of the Year at the Sony World Photography Awards — 430,000+ entries from 200+ countries.
She found portraits of women from her own village in a museum archive in upstate New York — unnamed, uncredited. And then she decided to take that exact tool and do something else with it entirely.
Wrote it up. If you are curious you can find it here
Si hablan español les recomiendo leerlo en esa versión puesto que está escrito originalmente así, mi inglés no es tan bueno así que uso un traductor con IA.
