Different cities have been the muse for many photographers through the history of art. In this occasion we got together two photographers with two very different poetics and their vision of two cities: New York and Buenos Aires. These two photographers, Gory (Rogelio Lopez Marin) and Gian Paolo Minelli, are showing the tales of these two cities, geographically and socially on opposite sides of the spectrum.

Gory is showing a new face of New York, a city made by a mixture of people from diverse origins, bringing up the real spirit of the place. Fragments of the city result in lyrical images, based on an effect created by the combination of black and white with a touch of color, a selective process emphasizing the center of his attention.

Gian Paolo Minelli, on the other hand, is focusing his attention on social aspects, in the conditions of a penitentiary building and in the community of Piedra Buena, a dilapidated neighborhood where the majority of the youth is addicted to crack. His images are fragments of that reality, hidden in the suburbs of Buenos Aires.

The object of their lens is the same in a sense, the results very different. Each photographer brings up a peculiar side of his chosen city, corners that perhaps many people pass every day, never paying attention to it. Once the images are selected and printed it might seem like fragments of another place. Both artists succeed at capturing the essence of each city in the resulting images, giving us the impression of a place frozen in time.

Bang, Bang, Toy Gun!, an installation by Victor Cartagena of San Salvador, is focused on issues of violence in youth communities, both in his home country and in the United States where he lives in and works in San Francisco. The viewer is pulled out of their comfort zone as they walk into the project space, where a video of a youth aiming a gun follows them and then randomly shoots.