SHOW LA is a photography fair, a community, and a creative platform featuring a curated selection of galleries, publishers, institutions and partners from around the world. A welcoming environment where discovery feels personal and is encouraged by a diverse program including a special exhibition, Low-Fi installations, talks, booksignings, a photography competition and an auction.

Hosted at The Reef in DTLA (1933 South Broadway, 4th floor) across 16,000 sq ft., and produced by Nazraeli Press (LA), Setanta Books (London), and Micamera (Milan), the fair runs from Thursday February 26 until Sunday March 1, 2026.

SHOW LA at The Reef is pleased to announce Our Landscapes Within, a group exhibition of works by Koral Carballo, Carolina Fuentes, Judith Romero, and Vanessa Quintero Casta eda. This exhibition is an exploration of identity through the lens of four contemporary women photographers. It presents a unique perspective on the rich and diverse visual representations of the legacy of Afro-descendants across four distinct regions of Mexico.

Curated by LA-based Mexican independent curator Claudia Pretelin, Our Landscapes Within delves into the cultural heritage, traditions, and stories that shape the lives of the communities it presents, inviting viewers to engage with and appreciate the profound connections between ancestry and contemporary identity in Mexico and its diaspora.

In her ongoing work and collaboration with various communities and towns along the state of Veracruz, Koral Carballo’s photographs aim to rewrite history by emphasizing the African heritage in Mexico. Through her images, she addresses the legacy of her ancestors, the challenges faced in the present, and the necessity of dismantling internalized racism, all while reconstructing a new visual history of Afro-Mexicans. Carolina Fuentes’s images of El Nacimiento de los Negros, explore the life of the Mascogos, an Afro-Indigenous community in Coahuila, Mexico, descended from Black Seminoles who escaped slavery in the US and migrated south in the mid-19th century. Judith Romero’s series Afrovalerianos combines photography and oral history to show the connection, trust, and collaboration she has built with the Afro-Mexican community of Valerio Trujano in Oaxaca’s Ca ada region. Her photos capture everyday life and explore portrait, landscape, and architectural styles. A key part of her work is saving and digitizing family album photos, which help shape the community’s identity and shared memory. Vanessa Quintero Castaneda’s self-portraits investigate the connections between the histories of slavery in Colombia and Mexico. In her photos, she takes on three different roles, each based on how Black women’s servitude was shown in colonial-era Guanajuato, Mexico. Using careful composition, Casta eda looks at ideas of gender, identity, and representation including elements from Casta paintings to show and question the roles and mistreatment faced by women of African descent at that time.