Carlos Tobón Franco is a multimedia artist and social researcher from Medellin, Colombia. He has an undergrad degree in Sociocultural Anthropology from Universidad de Antioquia and an MFA in Photography and Related Media from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Over the last eight years, he has worked within documentary arts and anthropology.
Using ethnographic, non-fiction, and experimental practices, Carlos has approached the Latin American diaspora through Central America, Latinx communities in US cities, and the US-Mexico borderlands. In his home country, he has been granted by the Ministry of Culture and the Institute for Culture and Heritage of Antioquia to create multimedia projects about identities, diversity, and the landscape. Currently, Carlos is a Wenner-Gren-funded scholar pursuing a doctoral degree in sociocultural anthropology at The University of Texas at Austin.
Cruces (2020) is his first film. Riada (2024) is an ethnographic inquiry into the aftermath of the massive landscape alteration caused by the Hidroituango dam in Antioquia, Colombia, and its impact on the local communities and environment.
