The Fascist Apparatus' of Colonization by William Camargo

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William Camargo

The Fascist Apparatus' of Colonization, 2025

Three 8 x 10 in.  

Three Archival Inkjet Prints

About the Work

Derived from a Teju Cole essay from the New York Times titled "When the Camera Was A Tool for Imperialism (And When It Still Is). There is a quote by writer Yvonne Vera where she states that the camera is a vile instrument, along with the gun and the bible, which are colonial peripheries that came with the colonization of many countries. Using a decolonial praxis in my work, I document these three tools to center the issues with the camera as a tool that can be used for liberatory practices instead of colonial.

About the Artist

William Camargo is a photo-based artist and educator born and raised in Anaheim, California. He is a photography lecturer at the University of California San Diego and Cal State Fullerton. He attained his M.F.A from Claremont Graduate University, a BFA from Cal State Fullerton, and an AA at Fullerton Community College. William is the founder and curator of Latinx Diaspora Archives, an archive Instagram page that elevates communities of color through family photos. He uses photography, installation, public interventions, and archives to address gentrification, police violence, and Chicanx/Latinx histories. William has residencies at the Latinx Project at NYU, Light Work in Syracuse, NY,  TILT Institute for Contemporary Image in Philadelphia,  the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY, and Penumbra Foundation, NYC.

Camargo exhibited in the artist-in-residence exhibition Negotiated Frontiers in 2021 at The Latinx Project.

https://www.williamcamargo.com/