Shadow of the self

• Photographer
  Silvino González Morales, Colombia
• Studio
  Piisani Design Studio
• Socials
• Website
  http://www.silvinogm.com

The idea behind this project is the notion of memory and past as a shadow of each one of
us. Every event in our lives is attached to us and is an intrinsically important part of
who we are.

Two negatives, each one from a different photography, a single salt print produced with
both of the negatives. Two slices of time frozen in a single layer of silver nitrate. Two
events separated in the time for years or maybe just seconds but united in a piece of
paper as a metaphor of how each one of us is a set of layer glued by our experiences
through the life.

Is also a display of how proud I'm of be a mixture of races and cultural lores: From the
Celtic and European roots of my dad to the beautiful Amerindian and African roots of my mom.

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• Biography
  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