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Picadero
by Carlos Jaramillo

Saddle stitched hardcover 
64 pages + poster
9” ✕ 11.6”
2024

Edited by Martha Naranjo Sandoval
Designed by Studio Lin
Text by Aída Hurtado
 Books ship in June 2025.

 Carlos Jaramillo was 23-years-old when he realized his dad was from Colombia and not from Cuba. Excited to share an upcoming trip to what he thought was his father’s birthplace, Havana, Jaramillo was met with a confession: his father had made the tough decision to hide his true identity even from his own family. Carlos still embarked on the trip, which no longer held a homecoming significance. It was in this state of mind that he met Erislandy, a Cuban pigeon racer who’s known throughout Old Havana for dyeing his birds fluorescent colors. 

Picadero not only documents the tradition of Old Havanan colombofilia, pigeon racing; the relationship between Carlos and Erislandy, who he visited multiple times and viewed as a father figure; and even more so his state of mind at a moment of impasse. 

This colorful book is accompanied by a poem by Chicana scholar Aída Hurtado, designed by Studio Lin, and edited by Martha Naranjo Sandoval.


Carlos Jaramillo is a photographer based in Los Angeles, CA. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, LA Times, Rolling Stone Magazine, The Guardian, and Zeit Magazine. Jaramillo is a graduate of School of Visual Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography. He has exhibited at Clemente Gallery, NY; GGLA, CA; Selena, NY; Little Big Man Gallery, Long Beach Museum of Art. Tierra del Sol, Jaramillo’s 2022 project was recently printed in the LA Times, The New Yorker, Zeit Magazine, Sixteen Journal and was presented as a solo exhibition at Selenas Mountain in May 2022 and GGLA in December 2022. He is the recent recipient of the 2022 Forest Lawn Museum Arts Fellowship.

Aída Hurtado, a leading Chicana feminist and scholar. Her book Intersectional Chicana Feminisms traces the origins of Chicanas’ efforts to bring attention to the effects of gender in Chicana and Chicano studies. She is the Department Chair at University of California Santa Barbara Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies.
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