Sabiduría a flor de piel (Wisdom on the skin) is a visual homage to some of the elders of
the aboriginal people Nasa and Misak from Colombia.
Women and men who are pillars for their communities and which knowledge and life must be
take in account for a better future.
A honor to work with Gustavo and Juan Yonda in this project. My most deep thanks to each
one of the people Who let me be part of their lives and take an small snapshot for this
project.
It includes an itinerant exposition, a website and a free e-book. From 18.000 photographs
taken during 4 months 230 were delivered in hand to the people who gave me the honor to
take an snapshot of their lives. And I selected 10 for the itinerant exposition which has
been displayed in 3 Reservations of the Nasa and Misak people so far.
The website: http://yourmung.bugs3.com/sabiduria/
The e-book: http://goo.gl/rvJAVv
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
