Joan-Ramon Manchado
Passersby (Series)
DESCRIPTION
“The best way of encountering the Other is not even to notice the color of his eyes!" (Emmanuel Lévinas, Ethics and Infinity)
I usually photograph people in the street; passersby I come across with when I’m walking in different cities around the world. Photography allows me to see an underlying dimension that I could hardly perceive with the naked eye. It’s a hybrid process that begins with digital capture and ends with the completion of the blueprint, whose monochromatic tones and loss of detail contribute to emphasize the most essential of the images. This way, without imposture or context, passersby's faces are revealed to me in an unequivocally transcendent manner.
"Passersby" is an ongoing project. All images of the series are 30x37 toned blueprints.
AUTHOR
I’m a sculptor and a self-taught photographer, based in Barcelona. In 2018 I began photographing people in public spaces of different cities around the world, sometimes including the urban context and other times avoiding it to give maximum prominence to people. “Passersby” is the first work I show.
Although digital photography is an important part of my work process, I'm especially interested in the materiality of the photographic object and in traditional techniques that allow me to experiment in the different phases of the process.
AWARDS
-InCadaques Open Call 2020. Finalist
-Revela't Festival Portfolio Review 2021. Second Place
-Fotonostrum Portrait Award 2021. Jurors Special Selection.
-Lens Culture Black and White Photography Awards 2021. Finalist
-AAP Magazine Women Photography Contest 2021. Particular Merit Mention
EXHIBITIONS
-InCadaques Photo Festival 2020
PUBLICATIONS
-LF Magazine, 2021
-AAP Magazine #23, 2022
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