Carlos Tobon Franco

Carlos Tobon Franco is a multimedia artist and social researcher from Medellin, Colombia. He has a degree in sociocultural anthropology (Universidad de Antioquia) and an MFA in Photography and Related Media (Rochester Institute of Technology). Carlos approaches the Latin American diaspora through ethnographic and experimental practices. 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 is his first film.