DESCRIPTION
“Elsewhere” explores ideas such as displacement, the landscape as a coping strategy and nature as transcendental space.
Challenging the restless feeling of not belonging, otherness and the cultural constrains, the landscape has offered me a cathartic relief, shaping a renewed sense of connectedness with nature.
Making both real and imaginary landscapes, I dissolve space and time, creating an interruption, an absence, giving a feeling of been elsewhere. Reality is suspended, reminding us we are just a small part of nature, united with it.
There is an invitation, seeking us to ponder and reflect, to create a moment of emptiness, a spark of consciousness. In all the nuances of simplicity nature reveals the divine, helping us to understand the world through an act of solitude.
Photography becomes an instrument through which I can reveal not only the nature that encloses me, but the nature that reflects the landscape within.
A silence arises reproducing a calm and precious universe, suspended in time, next to the world itself. A transcendental space evoking an allegory of a place called home.
AUTHOR
Francisco Gonzalez Camacho (b. 1990) is a Spanish photographer based in Helsinki. He is currently studying a Masters' degree in Photography at Aalto University.
His practice can be denominated as contemporary social documentary photography which focus in small stories and themes such as family, immigration and the landscape.
Group Exhibitions
2023 MoA exhibition, Finnish Museum of Photography, Finland (Upcoming).
2022 International Juried Exhibition (IJE) at the Center for Photographic Art (CPA), California, USA(Upcoming).
2022 Fringe Arts Barth, Bath Open Art Prize, at 44AD Artspace, Bath, UK (Upcoming).
2022 Open Art exhibition. Art Number 23, Barcelona, Spain.
2022 Nature group exhibition, Mrs.Toolip Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2022 AAVA 2022, Art in Porkkala, Porkkalanniemi, Finland
2022 The Auxiliary Project Space. Middlesbrough, UK.
2020 Glasgow Gallery of Photography. Glasgow, UK.
2020 Free Walkers, Seili Field Course, Väre, Aalto University, Finland.
2019 The Mutterscream: Crepuscular Lush, Jacob’s Market, Cardiff, UK.
2018 Guernsey Photography Festival. Guernsey, UK.
2018 Una mirada a Africa.Centro de Congresos y Exposiciones, Cadiz, Spain.
2018 USW Documentary Photography Course, Riverside Community Center, Cardiff, UK.
Publications
2022 Elsewhere, Self-publish Photobook, edition of 100.
2022 Handbali Magazine Volume 4.
Awards
2022 Booooooom Photo Book Award
2019 The Reginald Salisbury Travel Award.
