Leonora Vicuña

[4] In 1981, she was one of the founding members of the Association of Independent Photographers (Asociación de Fotógrafos Independientes; AFI), which worked to distribute photos of urban living conditions and protests under Chile's military dictatorship.

[1] Her work takes inspiration from the popular culture of Chile and France, from which she recalls "scenes of Santiago's bohemian life in the 1970s and 1980s, the dark and decadent world of its bars, as well as urban images of Paris".

[4] Vicuña has participated in several individual and group exhibitions, including Seis Visiones, Colectiva de Fotógrafos Chilenos (1984), J'aime la France (1994), 6 Visiones (1994) and Relatos Breves (2003) at the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts, París Flash at the Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art (1996), Bares y garzones: Un homenaje visual, exposición y CD Roms at the Chilean National History Museum (2002), Nehuen: Mapuche Power at the Museo de las Americas in Denver (2005), Quotidiens at the 14th National Salon of Photographic Art in Rabat, Morocco (2010),[7] and Domus Aural: Leonora Vicuña y Jorge Olave at the Estación Mapocho Cultural Centre (2011).

[1] For the 2010 salon in Rabat, Vicuña joined with photographers Alexis Díaz, Paz Errázuriz, Javier Godoy, Álvaro Hoppe, Miguel Navarro, Claudio Pérez, and Alejandro Wagner to form an artistic collective known as Grupo 8.

[1][9] In 2003 and 2004, she received nominations for the Altazor Award for National Arts for Bares y garzones: un homenaje visual and Lecciones de cosas from the group exhibition Relatos breves, both in the photography category.