Juliana Castro Varon

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Juliana Castro Varon

“Best I can do right now is warmer weather.”

Apr 28, 2023 | atlasobscura.com | Juliana Castro Varon

Every revolution needs a hero, and Manuela Beltrán was the most unlikely of them all. A peasant town merchant with the rare skill of literacy, Beltrán would become a pivotal figure in the Colombian Comuneros Revolt of 1781. Today the country is filled with statues honoring her story: After Spanish authorities declared a new tax spike in Socorro, her hometown in the northeast, Beltrán marched to the town square, tore up the edict, and led a revolution that would pave the way for independence.

Mar 9, 2023 | miamiherald.com | Juliana Castro Varon

My craft has been unfairly maligned. As a graphic designer, I toy with images to illuminate and distill information, to evoke, represent. After Photoshop became popular in the ‘90s, it was common to see articles blaming the software for destroying trust in the media, for anorexia, for imposing beauty standards — for the end of truth. But people have been editing photographic images, painting over them, cutting, pasting and doctoring for almost two centuries. Something is different now.