Portrait nominee

10 years later, the fire that killed 242 young people at the Kiss nightclub continues to destroy, either because of the inability of justice to give a response to family members, or because of the way in which local society tries to erase history, or even because of the physical and psychological mutilation of the survivors. In these portraits are stories that synthesize the trail of destruction of the fire that is far from being extinguished.

In the slow process of photographing with a wet plate collodion (a process invented from the transformation of explosive nitrocellulose into a photographic emulsion), space is opened for stories to be told. Among painful memories, good memories also emerge. This mixture is imprinted on the plates when the texture of the collodion is confused with burned skin, or when we have the impression that the images are formed by dense black soot, as at the end of a fire.

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.