Dr. Juanita Solano Roa is Assistant professor at the Department of Art History at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogota. Her work focuses on the history of photography and the history of modern and contemporary art in Latin America. She holds a PhD in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts (NYU) and a master's degree from the same institution. Prior to joining the University of Los Andes, she worked at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) as the collection manager. Her academic work has appeared in publications such as Beyond the Face: New Perspectives on Portraiture (London: D. Giles, 2018), Lámparas de mil bujías: Fotografía y arte en América Latina desde 1839 (Barcelona: Fog, 2018) —book of which she was also co-editor — and Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Vintage (New York: Throckmorton Fine Art, 2014).