Exhibitions

“Dim Light” at the Afro Casa Silvana Museum Highlights Afro-Puerto Rican Photography

Ten Afro-Puerto Rican photographers from the island and diaspora gather at Afro Casa Silvana Museum, mapping a living visual identity through May 16, 2026.

Germán Ayala Vázquez, “Alien Superstar”, 2023 / 12” x 8”, Digital Photograph on Luster Fine Art Paper.

Humacao, Puerto Rico is hosting a landmark photography exhibition right now. Dim Light: Afro-Puerto Rican Photography brings ten contemporary Afro-Puerto Rican photographers into a single collective presentation in the Conrado Room of the Afro Casa Silvana Museum, on view through May 16, 2026.

Billed as the first collective exhibition of contemporary Afro-Puerto Rican photography focused on artists from the island and the diaspora, Dim Light arrives as both a gathering and a statement. It brings forward a wide range of approaches while staying rooted in a shared purpose: making Afro-descendant perspectives visible through the camera, and documenting the intersection of art and race through photography.

Jorly Flores, “Abyss”, 2015 / 12” x 8”, Digital Photograph on Luster Fine Art Paper.

The exhibition features work by Brenda Cruz Díaz, Deyaneira Lucero Maldonado, Germán Ayala Vázquez, Jorly Flores, Victoria Nicole Martínez, Brenda Torres Figueroa, Ketsia Camacho Ramos, Elías Carmona Rivera, José Arturo Ballester Panelli, and Andrés Miró Lugo. Together, their photographs embrace a multiplicity of Afro-descendant identities shaped by culture, society, politics, and family, with each artist bringing their own visual language to the room.

This photography scene was first exhibited collectively at the 3rd Black Brazil Art Biennial in 2024, where Afro-Puerto Rican visual identity was recognized through photography on an international stage. Now the work is on view in Puerto Rico, offering local audiences and visitors a chance to encounter these voices together in one place.

What makes the exhibition feel urgent is its intention: to present perspectives from the Afro-diasporic community and leave a record of how art and race meet in the photographic frame.

Brenda Torres Figueroa, from the verb ser, to become “The light that shines within you”, From “Dressed as Home and Refuge”, 2017 / 10” x 10”, Digital photograph on platinum Fibre Rag paper.

The Afro Casa Silvana Museum is located in the Mambiche Prieto neighborhood of Humacao and is open Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. For more information, visit museoafrocasasilvana.com.