Maria Daniel Balcazar is a documentary and fine art photographer. Her projects focus on the importance of traditions, their uniqueness, and their universality. She highlights cultural legacies, and their adaptation through syncretism, as sources of strength for individuals and communities to survive and to flourish, to resist and to transcend adversity in everyday life.

Her book “Kilombo”, is a tribute to the resilience and vitality of the African legacy in Brazil. Her second book, “Herederos del Alba”, published in 2021, documents history and legends from pre-colonial to present days, from Andean, European and African cultures, as they are interwoven in Bolivia’s main festivity, the Oruro Carnival.