Scholarly Perspectives Spring 2025

Salazar has loved photography since childhood and worked as a photojournalist for AFP, Reuters and the Associated Press during the Guatemalan Civil War. Currently, he works as a freelance photographer, interested in human subjects and historical memory. He is proficient in both digital and film photography.

He has shown his work in more than 35 solo exhibitions and 40 group exhibitions in the United States, Europe, Japan, and South Korea. He received the Jonathan Mann Prize in the Humanities (1998) and was named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture (2005), leading to his promotion to Officer (2017).

Two anthologies have been published for him, by Kage Shobo (Tokyo, 2006) and the University of Texas (Austin, 2007). His work is on permanent display at the Belgian Museum of the Holocaust and Human Rights, where he conceptualized his exhibition Genocide, the Silent Tragedy of Guatemala (2014).

In 2015 he created the Se re (v) bela project, which presented the series Guatemala se re (v) bela (2016) and Xela se re (v) bela (2017). In 2018 it was the turn of San Salvador.