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Welcome to Verano Vienés!

More than a festival: a space to share who we are.

Verano Vienés is a festival born from the heartbeat of Latin America — from telling our stories exactly as we are: with truth, with dignity, with our own gaze.

Here, photography and documentary film are visual narratives that come from within, a shared language that crosses borders and connects sensibilities. Every image is a gesture that reveals how we live, how we dream, how we face — from the everyday to the collective — the challenges that define our lands: climate change, migration, inequality, the defense of rights, and memory.

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Latin America is a territory of multiple voices — of languages that resist, of communities that create in the midst of adversity, of ordinary stories that reveal an extraordinary beauty. Our narratives cannot simply be translated: they are felt, heard, seen. They are woven into daily life, into silent acts, into the gaze that nurtures, into the struggle that does not surrender, and into the dream that persists.

Verano Vienés is a bridge built of images — a meeting place between Latin America and Europe where the gaze becomes a bond and art becomes conversation. Because our stories do not only matter: they are necessary. Because telling them from within is also a way of existing. Because no one can tell our stories better than us — and because an image, when it is born from the inside, becomes language, memory, and encounter.

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WHO WE ARE?

Eloina Viveros Galván is the Director and Founder of Verano Vienés — a Mexican creative with a deep passion for photography and the conviction that art is what keeps us human. In Mexico, she co-founded the Distancia Focal International Photography Festival and worked as a legal advisor for refugees at the southern border.

An interdisciplinary professional and visual storyteller, her work sits at the intersection of migration, culture, and global change. With a background in International Relations and studies in Geography, Global Change, and Sustainability, her own experience as a migrant has led her to build bridges between continents — combining research and artistic expression to explore human mobility, identity, and environmental transformation.

Through Verano Vienés, she creates an independent space for dialogue between Latin America and Europe, amplifying the voices of Latin American artists whose perspectives enrich the global conversation. In collaboration with embassies, institutions, and diverse communities, she champions narratives that connect the personal with the collective, positioning art as a tool for reflection and encounter.

Frederick Platt is the General Coordinator of Verano Vienés — a versatile artist whose career integrates music and photography. He combines analytical thinking with a deep creative sensitivity, allowing him to move naturally between different forms of expression and bring an integral, human, and reflective vision to the projects he leads.

His work is guided by a strong emotional intelligence, a genuine sensitivity toward people, and an ability to connect with what is essential. His background as a software developer further reinforces his structured thinking and problem-solving skills, striking a remarkable balance between logic and creativity.

This fusion is also reflected in his musical career as an orchestra conductor and singer — he currently performs as a member of the chorus at the iconic Musikverein in Vienna — and in his personal conducting projects, where he has demonstrated an exceptional ability to translate musical complexity into profoundly human experiences. His empathetic gaze, his dreaming spirit, and his commitment to beauty in its many forms make him a fundamental presence in the building of spaces for dialogue, creation, and encounter within the festival.