Julian Burgueno is a Oaxacan born photographer documenting youth culture across Southwest Mexico and Los Angeles. His unflinching portraiture style is shaped by his involvement in mutual aid for marginalized communities, and a childhood of documenting his friends in the skateboarding struggling with addiction. His focus is to create work by normalizing diversity and the myriad of narratives of the marginalized and BIPOC communities. He seeks to deviate from saccharine narratives that blur out the discomfort of reality while surrendering to its beauty.
Julian Burgueno is a Oaxacan born photographer documenting youth culture across Southwest Mexico and Los Angeles. His personal involvement in mutual aid for marginalized communities living in difficult conditions, and documenting his friends in the skateboarding community struggling with addiction. These unflinching portrayals of difficult and often unsightly circumstances are through a participant's eyes. His focus point around portraiture is to create work by normalizing diversity and the myriad of narratives of the normal civilian. He seeks to deviate from saccharine narratives that blur out the discomfort of reality while surrendering to its beauty.