Emiliano Zúñiga Hernández (b.1990) is a Costa Rican based photographer. Between 2016-2019 he was president and co-founder of the non-profit association Costa Rica Initiative (2016 – 2019), a healing center focused on facilitating working methods with the intention of freeing participants from deep-rooted fears, self-judgments, limiting beliefs and behaviors. of self-sabotage.

 

Since 2023, he has been teaching and co-facilitating creative workshops that invites its participants to explore their relationship with their past and present contexts, through a series of homeworks and group feedback aimed to examine personal motivations and emotional responses in parallel to the production of photographs, texts, videos, audios, drawings, among others forms of creative expression. On the other hand, the author develops personal photographic projects that seek to establish a relationship between the oneiric and daily life.

 

Publications: In 2020 he made, with his own means, his first photobook “EN LA MONTAÑA”, in 2021 his first collaborative publication “n o service”, in 2022 he created the folio “Lapso de vigilia” made and distributed by underlife editions. His first official monograph “Paraíso” is published in 2023 by Trespasser books in Austin, Texas and distributed worldwide. “Paraíso (Anzuelos)” a photographic and written essay about the founding and dissolution of the healing center, and the emotional struggle that lead to the publication of the photobook, gets published by the digital magazine Wimblu. In 2024 a collaborative publication “Donde no vivo” exploring traditional printing methods such as letterpress, tea toned prints and homemade binding. In November 2024, his work is part of a group exhibition with a selection of photographs from Trespasser Books in Kominek Gallery, Berlin.