Filming ethnic groups poses the researcher with the challenge of identifying the mechanisms through which the use of certain visual codes –such as those that construct the “indigenous subject” as a “folkloric subject”- reproduce ideas about indigenous peoples as voiceless, ignorant, exploited or powerless subjects, representations that are actually imbedded in the quotidian logic and practice of dominating and discriminating interethnic interactions. Here I explain the importance of constructing other type of categories to visually represent indigenous bodies, practices and contemporary indigenous bodies and ways of living that make possible to imagine legitimate indigenous ethnicities associated urban places of residence, access to higher education and all other factors that they may choose to include as a form of living. Producing visual ethnographies about these contemporary forms of being indigenous may contribute to the construction of de-stigmatizing of indigenous peoples in the Latin American context.