Nature nominee

Flora elements as a photographic theme have been around for a very long time and have several purposes in the history of photography. Karl Blossfeldt saw the archetypes of art in the small manifestations of nature, and Joan Fontcuberta, in her Herbarium series produced from pseudo-plants made from scrap, denounced the traps and limitations of photographic objectivity.

By Reducing to a monochromatic scheme, using soft light and a neutral background, I seek to decant the primitive forms that appear as sculptural pieces modeled during millions of years of evolution. Thus, in addition to the shape, we were also able to distill the textures, which in their natural scale are not perceived by our eyes.

As I began to look more closely at my surroundings, the potent forms of this biodesign mingled with my photographer reasoning, mentally creating the sculptures built in my studio.

Based on my theoretical research, I adopted as a creative philosophy the appreciation of two fundamental aspects of photography: the first is its materiality. Hence my interest in exploring the historical processes of chemical printing, which give photography a condition of originality, exclusivity, and rarity.
The second aspect is about recognizing in photography its capacity to carry imagery. This allows me to explore human emotionality, tell stories, and transform elements of the visible world into aesthetic and knowable objects. Through the aesthetics and narratives that photographs emanate from us, I align myself with the artist's mission to help promote hope, mystery, empathy, justice and beauty in the world.
My authorial works have two thematic lines, in one I pursue an aesthetic-creative reading of the world, emotions and human subjectivities. In general, these images are produced with greater interventions, producing scenes that are extraneous to the way we naturally see the world. In another, the images are closer to a documentary language, where I present my photographs of a critical-narrative nature, the result and expression of my political vision of reality.