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About Karla Gachet Vega
Karla Gachet Vega (@kchete77) is a Photographer creator on Instagram, also filed under Photography & Video. The account has 43,018 followers and 597 published posts. Recent posts average 890 likes and 8 comments, an engagement rate of 1.9%.
With 43K followers, Karla Gachet Vega is a micro creator by the common 10,000 to 100,000 definition. Karla Gachet Vega follows 3,432 accounts, so the audience is roughly 13 times the size of the list followed. Karla Gachet Vega carries Instagram's verified badge and uses an Instagram professional account. Flinque files Karla Gachet Vega under Photographer, with Photography & Video as a secondary category.
The Instagram bio for Karla Gachet Vega runs to 15 words across 2 lines. The bio mentions @insidenatgeo, @ayunfotografas, @runa_photos and @panospictures. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Karla Gachet Vega dates from February 2026.
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597 Posts
Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Karla Gachet Vega, 6 are carousels, 3 are videos and 1 is a single image. That mix leans toward carousels. Karla Gachet Vega has built a substantial archive of 597 posts. Against the audience, that is roughly 72 followers for each post published. Karla Gachet Vega also keeps 14 story highlights on the profile. All 10 carry captions, averaging 218 words each. Words that recur across them include visual, cumbia, across, tierra and america. The captions tag #wpph2026, #photoville2026, #photovillefestival and #photovillenyc.
Cumbia en Mi Tierra is a project by photographers Karla Gachet and Ivan Kashinsky developed over several years and published by NPR as the bilingual visual series Cumbia Across Latin America. This project was supported by the National Geographic Society. Spanning six countries, the work documents the people, places and cultures that keep cumbia alive across borders and generations.
Special Thanks to:
Curated by Virginia Lozano
Featuring: Karla Gachet, Ivan Kashinsky “Cumbia en Mi Tierra”, curated by Virginia Lozano
🔗 Link in bio to preview more of “Cumbia en Mi Tierra”, as well as all the 85+ public #Photoville2026 exhibits going up throughout NYC this summer!
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📍 Brooklyn Bridge Park
▪️ Presented by NPR
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📅 May 16–30th, 2026
📣 Opening Weekend May 16th and 17th, 2026 in
📍 85+ exhibitions across all 5 boroughs + IRL & online public programming
✨ Link in bio to learn more!
Thanks to Lead Marquee Partner and Marquee Partners,,,,,,,,, and
#PhotovilleFestival #PhotovilleNYC
Es una prestigiosa narradora visual y educadora ecuatoriana radicada en Los Ángeles, con casi dos décadas de experiencia documentando la diáspora latinoamericana.
Es exploradora de 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗚𝗲𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗰 y miembro de 𝗔𝘆ü𝗻 𝗙𝗼𝘁ó𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗳𝗮𝘀, 𝗙𝗼𝘁𝗼 𝗙é𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘀, 𝗗𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗳𝘆 𝗣𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼 y 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗣𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵. Su trabajo ha sido publicado en 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗬𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 y 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁, entre otros medios, y ha sido reconocido con premios como 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗣𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼, 𝗣𝗢𝗬𝗶 y 𝗣𝗢𝗬 𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗔𝗠. ✨
Como docente de 𝗥𝗜𝗭𝗢𝗠𝗔, trabajará en torno a 𝗖𝘂𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗼, 𝗰𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗶𝗮 𝘆 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮, un recorrido por su proyecto Cumbia en Mi Tierra para explorar cómo nacen las historias de largo aliento: desde la experiencia personal hasta la construcción colectiva de narrativas documentales.
✨ Postulá ahora para ser parte de RIZOMA
𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮 𝗵𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗮 𝗲𝗹 𝟭𝟱 𝗱𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗹 📅
2. Marina has been working in the fields since she got to the U.S. about twenty years ago. Due to a heat stroke years ago, she now becomes easily agitated, often needing to take breaks. 27 August 2020.
3. Reyna Herrera (29) was born in Fresno, California, and grew up in Michoacan, Mexico and has worked in the fields since she was 17. She has three kids who she leaves with her mother in Mexico while she comes to work in the fields for a few months at a time. 6 September 2020.
From the project ‘Too Hot to Live’, by Karla Gachet Vega, and various other photographers, commissioned by, documenting the effects of extreme global heating.
As the climate warms, entire regions are being pushed beyond what the human body can handle, turning heat into a matter of survival, where people struggle to live and for many, it is a growing work hazard.
In parts of the U.S., outdoor labor is becoming increasingly dangerous, particularly for the workers who harvest food and remain exposed to the heat. California’s Central Valley, one of the most productive agricultural regions in the world, supplies more than half of the fruits, vegetables, and nuts grown in the country.
State law requires growers to provide water, shade, and rest breaks, yet these labour protections are often ignored when it comes to pickers paid by the bucket or by weight—sometimes at the cost of their health.
Karla Gachet Vega is an Ecuadorian visual storyteller who documents stories across Latin America and the United States, exploring themes of culture, territory, Indigenous and environmental rights, and migration. Vega is a 2010 World Press Photo Contest winner, and a South America regional jury member for the WPPh2026 Contest.
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🔗 Judging for the #WPPh2026 Contest is underway! See the link in bio to meet the jury.
In parts of the U.S., outdoor labor is becoming increasingly dangerous, particularly for the workers who harvest food and remain exposed to the heat. California’s Central Valley, one of the most productive agricultural regions in the world, supplies more than half of the fruits, vegetables, and nuts grown in the country.
State law requires growers to provide water, shade, and rest breaks, yet these labour protections are often ignored when it comes to pickers paid by the bucket or by weight—sometimes at the cost of their health.
Seen here in California, US, by:
1. Jose Chavez kisses his wife Martha, who holds their baby, before going to work in Bakersfield, on 9 September 2020. A mayordomo with 20 years of experience in fields, and once a worker himself, Jose prioritizes breaks and provides ice water for workers all day long.
2. Workers pick tomatoes in a field in Los Baños, on 8 September 2020. Work starts from early in the morning (5 a.m.), while temperatures rise by mid-morning (9 a.m) and labor continues under intense heat. Paid by contract, workers earn 74 cents per 25 pounds bucket, averaging 200 to 250 buckets a day according to a mayordomo.
3. Blas Orosco (47) harvests grapes in Fresno, on 4 September 2020, which will be used to make raisins. The harvest is called "la tabla", which refers to the piece of paper where they place them. The workers get paid depending on how many of these "tablas" they fill up. Each one is 33 cents and they usually do between 250 to 400 tablas a day depending on how much fruit the vines have.
From the project ‘Too Hot to Live’, by Karla Gachet Vega and various other photographers, commissioned by, documenting the effects of extreme global heating.
Karla Gachet Vega is an Ecuadorian visual storyteller who documents stories across Latin America and the United States. Vega is a 2010 World Press Photo Contest winner, and a South America regional jury member for the #WPPh2026 Contest.
This project follows Jenny Silva, an Indigenous Chicana-Mexicana traditional doula who has supported nearly 300 families across Southern California. Through ancestral knowledge passed down through generations of women, Jenny offers culturally rooted birth and postpartum care that challenges medicalized norms.
The narrative highlights how often uncredited yet essential Indigenous midwifery practices provide agency and healing for Latina mothers, through community-based care.
Seen here, by:
1. A portrait of Jenny Silva cleaning herself with La Santa Maria, a sacred plant from Oaxaca, Mexico, on 15 November 2021, where she used to travel to learn from Enriqueta Contreras, a Zapotec midwife.
2. Sofía Q. does a corn reading to Jenny Silva at her home in Huautla de Jimenez, Oaxaca, Mexico, on 19 October 2021.
3. Jenny Silva smudges Rosaura Lopez with copal to bless the baby and her work space, in Riverside, California, on 19 October 2021, days before giving birth.
4. Rosaura Lopez lays in a tub surrounded by her family and her home birth crew during the home birth of their son, in Riverside, California, on 27 October 2021.
5. Jenny Silva gives Rosaura Lopez a herbal bath forty days after giving birth at her home in Riverside, California, on 2 December 2021. The act of sweating mixed with medicinal herbs cleanses the woman of any “susto” (scare) or trauma during pregnancy and birth.
Karla Gachet Vega is an Ecuadorian visual storyteller who documents stories across Latin America and the United States, exploring themes of culture, territory, Indigenous and environmental rights, and migration. Vega is a 2010 World Press Photo Contest winner, and a South America regional jury member for the 2026 World Press Photo Contest.
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🔗Judging for the #WPPh2026 Contest is underway! See the link in bio to meet the jury.
Through music and dance, cumbia reflects histories of migration, exclusion, and survival, recognized as one shared rhythm.
‘Cumbia en mi Tierra’ by Karla Gachet Vega, developed in collaboration with Ivan Kashinsky, explores the origins and evolution of cumbia. As a music and dance genre, cumbia embodies Latin American identity and serves as a form of cultural resistance in a region shaped by racism and classism.
As part of the project, Vega collaborated on a video focusing on Cumbia Andina in Ecuador, one of several chapters of ‘Cumbia en mi Tierra’, with multimedia editor Alejandro Reinoso, illustrated by Sofia Acosta and.
Karla Gachet Vega is an Ecuadorian visual storyteller who documents stories across Latin America and the United States, exploring themes of culture, territory, Indigenous and environmental rights, and migration. Vega is a 2010 World Press Photo Contest winner, and a South America regional jury member for the 2026 World Press Photo Contest.
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Judging for the #WPPh2026 Contest is underway! The six regional juries have shortlisted the entries for the global jury, who will decide on the winners of this year’s contest over the upcoming weeks.
🔗 See the link in bio to meet the jury.
Born on Colombia’s Caribbean coast during the Spanish colonial rule, cumbia emerged from marginalized African and Indigenous communities, shaped by European influences, and travelled with migrants across cities, borders, and generations, continually adapting while remaining rooted in lived experiences.
Seen here, by:
1. Workers unload sand at the El Cesar dock near El Banco, Magdalena, Colombia, on 8 August 2022, which is commonly known as the birthplace of cumbia.
2. Neiro Yesid Diaz Avaris, director and founder of Fundación Folclórico Artística Herencia de Mi Tierra, directs dance students to compete at the Festicumbia in El Banco, Magdalena, on 7 August 2022.
3. A collage of two portraits showing Merany Yusseth Avila (left), who is a member of Unión de Cumbia, a group of young people who dance cumbia “regia” in Monterrey, Mexico. On the right, Ana Regina Ardila Matos, a cantadora of a rhythm called “Tambora” which uses the same instruments and is related to cumbia, in her town of San Martin de Loba, Colombia.
4. The tecnocumbia group, Tierra Canela, gives a concert at a gay bar in Quito, Ecuador, on 9 December 2023.
5. Jose Vazquez, who is a renowned sonidero (cumbia DJ), and his grandson pose for a portrait at their home in the La Independencia neighborhood, in Monterrey, Mexico, on 9 August 2023.
Karla Gachet Vega is an Ecuadorian visual storyteller who documents stories across Latin America and the United States, exploring themes of culture, territory, Indigenous and environmental rights, and migration. Vega is a 2010 World Press Photo Contest winner, and a South America regional jury member for the 2026 World Press Photo Contest.
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🔗Judging for the #WPPh2026 Contest is underway! See the link in bio to meet the jury.
CUMBIA EN MI TIERRA
Monterrey, Mexico is also known as Colombia Chiquita because of their love for cumbia, which has its origins in northern Colombia. Please check out the link in my bio for the full video to learn more about Monterrey’s love for cumbia! It was in La Independencia, a neighborhood in Monterrey, where Gabriel Dueñez, a local DJ, accidentally created cumbia rebajada when his equipment began to overheat and his vinyl records played at a slower speed. The people loved it and a new subgenre was born changing the culture of Monterrey and beyond.
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Special Thanks:,,, Ivonne Azpeytia, Juan Carlos Ovalle (Sonido Colombia), Bekkiy Ayram, Canto Negro, Noe Díaz, Mario Duran Infante, Javier López, José Vásquez, Ricky Celedón, Union de Cumbia y y todos los que formaron parte y ayudaron a hacer posible el proyecto.
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Karla Gachet Vega's engagement rate on Instagram is 1.9%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 53 followers. Likes outnumber comments by roughly 111 to 1, with 890 likes and 8 comments on an average post, so most reactions are taps rather than replies.
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Karla Gachet Vega (@kchete77) is a Photographer creator on Instagram, also filed under Photography & Video. Karla Gachet Vega carries Instagram's verified badge and uses an Instagram professional account. The Instagram bio for Karla Gachet Vega runs to 15 words across 2 lines.
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Karla Gachet Vega has 43,018 followers on Instagram (43K). Karla Gachet Vega follows 3,432 accounts, so the audience is roughly 13 times the size of the list followed. Karla Gachet Vega has built a substantial archive of 597 posts.
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Karla Gachet Vega's engagement rate on Instagram is 1.9%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 53 followers. Likes outnumber comments by roughly 111 to 1, with 890 likes and 8 comments on an average post, so most reactions are taps rather than replies.
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