Monica Alcazar-Duarte is a British-Mexican non-fiction photographer and cultural interventionist. In her projects she seamlessly mixes images and new technologies, such as Augmented Reality, to create multi-layered work. In recent years Monica has mainly focused on the human relationship with Nature and our current use of technology and science as an attempt to gain control over it. Through the use of interactive images Monica’s work engages audiences in the process of producing meaning through seemingly disconnected narratives.
Her work confronts our obsession with speed, growth and a better future, and highlights our collective shortcomings in accepting Nature’s evolutionary systems and its slow but incremental change. She is part of initiatives advocating for humane technologies and regulation of large tech companies in Europe.
In 2021 she will be holding the Ampersand-Photoworks residency in the U.K. In 2020 she was nominated for a NatGeo Fellowship and won a Firecracker Grant
