Photobook Talk: Musuk Nolte & Marco Garro

Join us at the Bronx Documentary Center for a conversation with photographers Musuk Nolte and Marco Garro.
Nolte will present El Idioma de los Huesos (The Language of the Bones), and Garro will share BOCA MINA as they discuss their photographic practices, recent publications, and approaches to storytelling, bookmaking, and long-term projects.
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Header image: © Musuk Nolte

El Idioma de los Huesos (The Language of the Bones) by Musuk Nolte is a photographic requiem for mourning and memory surrounding Peru’s internal armed conflict (1980–2000). The Andean landscape operates as wounded territory: its canyons' paths bear living witness to a violence that claimed 69,280 lives, many still unaccounted for.
For over thirteen years Musuk has documented these cases—not only as a visual record, but as an essay on grief in a fractured country seeking, through the construction of historical memory, to bring certain cycles to a close.
The project gathers photographs, testimonies, and the author’s own texts, and includes a collaboration with the theater group Yuyachkani, where documentary images migrate to the stage and the book itself becomes a performative tool. A work rooted in local context, aimed at global resonance.
Designed by Raul Benua (@raul_benua)
Published by KWY (@kwy_ediciones)

(@musukn) is a photographer and editor born in Mexico City. His work blends documentary and artistic approaches to examine themes of memory, environmental change, and social realities, often in collaboration with communities across the Andean and Amazonian regions. Nolte holds a degree in professional photography with a focus on contemporary practices. His work has been widely recognized, including support from the Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund and the Elliott Erwitt HC7 Fellowship (2017), the Vital Impacts Grant and Bertha Foundation Fellowship (2022), and as a finalist for the Discovery Award at the Rencontres d’Arles (2025). He is currently a National Geographic Explorer. He is the author of eight photobooks and the founder and director of KWY Ediciones, an independent publishing house dedicated to visual narratives by Latin American artists.
Image: © Musuk Nolte

BOCA MINA, by Marco Garro, explores what drives the search for gold in an inhospitable territory under extremely dangerous conditions, offering a unique portrait of a mining town in response. The mine entrances, conceived as artifacts of the collective dreams of those who excavated them, embody both the promise and the harshness of gold’s transformative power.
Through Garro’s lens, the bo-caminas speak. Here, gold is both hope and condemnation; and in its depths, the Muki—the feared spirit of the mine—waits in the shadows, evoking a saying in La Rinconada: “Within the gold, the devil lurks.”
Designed by Rafael Nolte and Marco Garro
Published by KWY (@kwy_ediciones)

(@marcogarrop) is a documentary photographer, journalist, and visual artist based in Peru. His work focuses on social, human rights, and environmental issues, mainly in the Andes and the Amazon of his home country. Garro is a Pulitzer Center Grantee and a National Geographic Explorer. He received the Photography Residency ‘Musée du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac’ in France and won first place of the Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano in Peru. Garro has also won three annual awards for his photojournalism from the press organization IPYS in Peru. He recently published his first photobook, Quiulacocha, which explores the consequences of mining pollution in a remote Andean city. Garro’s work has been exhibited in the Museum of Contemporary Art and The Biennial of Photography in Peru. It has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Bloomberg, and Agence France-Presse, among others. He is a member of the photographic collective Supayfotos and has represented the collective in the international photojournalism festival Visa pour l'Image.
Image: © Marco Garro

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