SOUTHERN EXPOSURE

, who shot this image, has been documenting the increasing social assertiveness of migrant communities (women of Aymara or Quecha communities, identified by their high bowler hats and puffed skirts) waiting for a video shoot of their dance routine in the garden of a luxurious chalet typifies this resurgence. Whereas cholitas once faced widespread discrimination, they have now gained in political and economic strength in the cities, and are often fashion influencers. With more than 800 popular festivities per year officially registered in La Paz, there is plenty of opportunity to strut their stuff. For Seoane, actively involving the people he portrays is his most important journalistic principle. ‘It is their story we are telling, so we have to let them tell it; we must work as a bridge only,’ he says