In June 2022, Carlos debuted his photography installation “Souls of a Movement” at Chinatown Soup, a community art center advancing art, justice, historic preservation, and civic engagement in downtown New York City.
“Souls of a Movement” is an ongoing photo-documentary project on the protagonists of various social protests that have intermittently erupted in New York, Washington DC, London and other cities, around racial justice, bodily autonomy and medical freedom, gender identity, freedom of speech, war/peace, mass surveillance, and other human rights issues.
The series explores the way in which protestors can embody a core set of values and principles such as humaneness, personal sovereignty, reconciliation, and truth-seeking in evolving contexts, times and spaces, and transcend ideological divides to forge new hybrid paths. The brief texts that accompany each image create a common thread that delves into realms as diverse as cultural commentary, social critique, consciousness and metaphysics, and invite the viewer to use self-knowledge, critical thinking and trained discernment as a platform to create new realities. Link to installation's website here
