Escape Magazine
One year ago we moved to La Paz, Bolivia. On june, I started my collaboration with Escape, the sunday magazine of La Razón, Bolivia's most important newspaper. Since then I've been illustrating a section called "Ellos y Ellas" (which is not easy to translate. "Guys and Dolls", according to Google translator, but I'm not sure about it). It consists on brief written profiles of anonymous characters. The task of the illustration, as I understand it, is to dialogue with these texts and to look for new ways of showing the character's stories.
After the holiday break and before starting a new yaer in the magazine, I leave here a selection of the characters portrayed during the past year. I believe that in this way, looking at them sorted one after the other, we can get a -not sociological but whimsical- sample of bolivian society.
After the holiday break and before starting a new yaer in the magazine, I leave here a selection of the characters portrayed during the past year. I believe that in this way, looking at them sorted one after the other, we can get a -not sociological but whimsical- sample of bolivian society.
Dagmar Dümchen, was born in Germany but has been living in Bolivia since she was 6 years old. She comoposes folck bolivian songs and also works as physiotherapist.
Ingrid Hölstern, fashion designer. With her designs she wants to protray the country identity.
Nicholas Palmer, not long ago he's been to La Paz conducting the Bolivian National Sinfonic Orchestra. His dream is to travel the world conducting orchestras.
Emma Rivas de Ticona. Saleswoman on "Witches Street", in La Paz old town.
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Nelfi Ibañez is a soccer coach that dreams to train a men's soccer team and break gender prejudices.
Virginia Ruiz, writer and voleyball player.
Walter Gonzales, bolivian basketball coach and historic former of youth players.
Aymar Ccopacatty is a guy between two worlds. Speacks fluent aymara, eanglish and spanish, he grew up in the States, his mother country and, when he was twenty years old, he moved to Peru in search of his roots. By the moment, he founded them in Bolivia.
Beatriz García, director of the Social Capital Unit of Banco Sol.
Hugo "Chino" Caravajal has been working as a bootblack in 24 de Septiembre square at Santa Cruz for the last 50 years. After so long, seemed to me that this gentleman deserved a statue over that square, so I've done it for him.
Gabriel Mamani, seller of "El Gato Blanco", one of the few businesses left in the old commercial center of La Paz.
Graciela Campos, people say she's been the best french teacher of the French Alliance in La Paz.
Josué Córdova, flutist and luthier, resident in Denmark.
Juan Pablo Imaná is bolivian national skate champion and has also his own band.
Julia Sarabia, ceramist.
Mariana Aramayo is a paceñan volunteer who has worked in social proyects in Haiti and Malawi.
Stanislas Gilles is a belgian based in Bolivia since long ago. After years working in the International Cooperation, he decides to set up a cheese factory called "Flor de Leche", decision that we appreciate very much. Since I was a Kid I always thought it fun to imagine the person responsible of placing de holes in the cheese.
Thierry Hodemon is a french baker based in the town of Rurrenabaque.
Serge Carraco, the new director of the Alliance Française in La Paz has lived in Canada, Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela. In every country he arrives he looks or built a rugby team.
To finish, this is a cover I made for a spetial issue of the Magazine dedicated to bolivians living abroad.
