Between Us with Eliza Bell Schweizbach and Kaoly Gutierrez
Between Us with Eliza Bell Schweizbach and Kaoly Gutierrez
Join us via Zoom Wednesday, February 26th, 7 pm ET
Join Eliza Bell Schweizbach and Kaoly Gutierrez for a conversation about intimacy, vulnerability, and photography between people. Both Eliza and Kaoly submitted portfolios to the “Between Bodies” call that dwell in intimate and personal realms. In Gravida, Eliza works alongside pregnant people to present a complex view of pregnancy that dives into the known and unknown. In I’m Sorry. Forgive Me. Thank You. I Love You, Kaoly explores the relational dynamics and energies between people: the hidden thoughts, judgments, desires, and unspoken histories that linger in our connections.
Together we will contemplate how photography can deepen our connections to each other, and what changes in us when we make vulnerable images.
Kaoly Gutierrez, (b.2003) is a Mexican documentary photographer raised in the mountains of Southern Appalachia. Born in Mexico, she immigrated to the United States with her parents and her two brothers when she was 3 years old. She has spent most of her adult life working in construction. Without any formal art school training, she became drawn to photography in her spare time as a means of exploring people's stories and relating to the world around her. An internship in 2022-2023 provided her with invaluable insights, vocabulary, and skills in the field. She primarily shoots documentary and portrait photography. For Kaoly, photographing is a natural way to facilitate interactions in her life; it is a means for both caring for herself and those around her through the attention she imbues through the lens.
Instagram: @KaolyGTZ
Eliza Bell Schweizbach is an artist and documentary photographer living in Asheville, NC.
She sees her camera as a tool for deepening curiosity, celebrating connection, and allowing people to feel seen. Since childhood, she has been enamored with the natural world, and has been markedly influenced by a lifetime spent in the Appalachian mountains.
Alongside her current personal projects — Gravida (an exploration of the complex experiences of pregnancy) and Photo Poem Post (an ekphrastic poetry collaboration) — she works as a wedding and family photographer, work she finds endlessly compelling.
Instagram: @elizabellphotography
