Not only as a visual artist but specially as a photographer my interests not lays only in the subject, the emotions or the evocation of memory and feelings. I’m also deeply interested in the index, in the photographic act itself; in the materials, the chemical, optical and technical processes involved in the capture of the light.
From the analogical to the digital tools and processes I don’t discard anything, I want to give a try to every technique, procedure and approach to the photography art and craft.
This series is an example of my hunger and need to run risks, to challenge myself and think out the box of my conformity and safe ground. also is an example of my continuous process of learning by doing things and making mistakes (I’m a big lover of mistakes, wrong ways, dead ends and mazes).
It is named Frozen, a game of significances between the process employed in it and the idea of how the photography freeze the time and the subjects in some limbo outside space and time and inserted it into the memory and imagination.
I’ve used an Illford 400 black and white film. After the captures the film was frozen for almost a month, then it was developed in the lab, the negatives scanned and processed to positive using Photoshop.
I left on the images fragments of the negative film borders, the damage produced by the ice crystals, the scratches. All the accidental variables, or at least out of my control, are part of my search in this series, all that “imperfections” are vital to the mood I want to evocate and are a subject of study itself.
I use the mix of analogical and digital captures as metaphor of the construction and deconstruction of the male imagery in arts and fashion thereby the classic poses.
I've been linked to photography since I was born, my father is one of the photographers I admire the most. He been a constant source of inspiration and support, as a matter of fact my whole family is the most important in my life. I have bipolar disorder and that has defined a lot of my interaction with the world and how I've decided to employ art, photography, as a cathartic tool to deal with my condition.
My love for the image is ever-growing, especially now that I'm more focused on the exploration of any kind of form of capture and reproduction from thnineteenth century to digital ones.
Awards Winner of Beca de creación para artistas de trayectoria intermedia. Ministerio de Cultura,
Colombia. (Scholarship for artist with intermediate trajectory, Culture Ministry, Colombia)
Series: Sabiduría a flor de piel (Wisdom deep seated)
Photography from the series Frozen, incluided in the exhibition from the Center of Fine
Arts: Center Forward 2014 Juried by Hamidah Glasgow. Fort Collins, Colorado, USA.
http://goo.gl/Tju1ra
Finalist the 7th Masters Cup of Photography in London. Category Professional - Fine Art.
London, United Kingdom.
http://goo.gl/LAuYmw
Photographs included in (lith prints) in Light Sensitive 2014 – Celebrating Images from
the Darkroom. Art Intersection, Arizona, USA. 2014.
http://artintersection.com/blog/highlighted-submissions-to-light-sensitive-2014/
Finalist in the 6th Pollux Awards, category Fineart.
http://www.call4artists.com/6thPollux.html#list
Participant of Telephone: a collective work of creation between several art fields by Satellite.
http://transmission.satellitepress.org/VOLUME/001/ISSUE/003/telephone/
2013
The analogical half of my series: Bipolar: Between analogical and digital won in the London
International Creative Contest (Final Selection).
http://goo.gl/4ITJJU
Honorable mention (photographs from the series Frozen) in the Grand Prix de la Photographie
2013, category Professional.
http://goo.gl/O4gdf
Photograph exposed and included in the catalogue of: Looking back: The art of nostalgia
en PhotoPlace Gallery (Middlebury, Vermont, USA)
http://www.vtphotoworkplace.com/id221.html
Photograph (reproductio of one salt print from the series Shadow of the self) included in
the esposition: Fotosalon Varna, and its catalogue. Varna, Bulgary.
http://goo.gl/hFfFq
