ICP Photobook Club x Luis Juárez, BALAM

Explore photobooks from the ICP Library and connect with fellow photobook enthusiasts at ICP's Photobook Club. Each month, browse hand-picked selections from special guests and ICP community members.

This session of Photobook Club is hosted by Luis Juárez, editor, curator, cultural practitioner, and director of BALAM Magazine.

The Photobook Club takes place in the ICP library on the last Saturday of each month. This event is free to attend with RSVP.

About Luis Juárez

Luis Juárez (1991, HN/AR) is an editor, curator, and cultural practitioner working in the field of photography, currently based between New York and Buenos Aires. He develops artistic projects and produces books, magazines, exhibitions, and art fairs. He is the editor and founder of Balam, the first and only queer magazine dedicated to contemporary photography in Latin America, and the founder of MIGRA, the Buenos Aires Art Book Fair. Juárez is a member of the Archivo de la Memoria Trans Argentina (Argentina Trans Memory Archive), a space dedicated to the preservation, construction, and vindication of trans memory. His practice is guided by a distinctly queer vision, committed to building networks and alliances that strengthen and expand the visibility of dissidence communities. He has collaborated with various institutions, museums, and projects worldwide, including Printed Matter, MoMA, Paris Ass Book Fair, Museum Folkwang, Instituto Moreira Salles, Foam Magazine, Dashwood Projects, Fotomuseum Winterthur, 1000 Words Magazine, Prince Claus Fund, Getxophoto Festival, Sprint Milano and many more. He is currently pursuing an M.A. in Curatorial Studies at Bard College, New York.

About BALAM
Balam is an independent contemporary queer photography magazine, the first and only one of its kind in Latin America. Through themes aimed at exposing multiple realities and supporting the struggles of minorities and dissident communities, it promotes artists seeking to express themselves and expand their work beyond borders. Its publication aims to transform, make visible, challenge, and (re)invent critical discourses that engage with social, cultural, and political issues. From an anti-hegemonic stance and with a poetic and unconventional approach, it challenges traditional photographic practices.

About ICP Library 

ICP’s reading library contains over 20,000 books and periodicals. The reading room is currently open to the public during ICP’s monthly Photobook Club, to researchers by appointment, and to members during Library Member Hours.

Learn more about ICP’s Library here. 

Cover Image by Pasinee Pramunwong