Ángel Gurría-Quintana
Polaroid diptychs (II) (Series)
DESCRIPTION
A single picture captures a moment. When viewed alongside another, it can tell a story.
These diptychs are images in dialogue. Light and shadow in quiet conversation. Deliberate echoes and unintended reflections. Plant life and flesh echoing and rhyming.
The paired images grew out of an earlier series, "Polaroid Dreams", which used the emulsion lift process. As digitally generated content becomes ever more ubiquitous, I am increasingly drawn to that method's manual nature and unpredictability.
Imperfect photographic emulsions layered onto imperfect paper surfaces are an ideal medium to apply to visual representations of the human form. The resulting images are ethereal and unrepeatable.
It is a photographic approach that offers the means to pursue – and take pleasure in – transitory beauty.
AUTHOR
Ángel Gurría-Quintana grew up in Mexico City, where he studied photography for many years. He moved to the United Kingdom in 1997. He is based in Cambridge. His photographs have been on display in exhibitions in Mexico City, Cambridge, London (Mall Galleries), Vermont (Dark Room Gallery 2016, 2017), Montreal (Photo Shoot Awards 2016), Leeds (Shutter Hub Bright 2016), Denver (Big Picture 2017) and Athens (Blank Wall Gallery, 2017).
Other awards and exhibitions:
Awards and exhibitions:
*Honourable Mentions, Monochrome Awards (2024)
*Gold Award, Tokyo International Foto Awards (2024)
*"Polaroid Dreams", Cambridge Open Studio (2024)
*"Inside/Outside", solo exhibition, Stir, Cambridge (2021)
*Honourable Mention, International Photography Awards, One Shot Street Photo (2019)
*Everything I Ever Learnt, Shutter Hub exhibition, Cambridge (2019)
*Merit, Photoshoot Awards (2019)
*A Color Moment, PhotoPlace Gallery, VT (2019)
*Nominee (Amateur/Fine Art), Fine Art Photography Awards (2018)
*Honourable mention, Monochrome Awards (2018)
*Merit, Photoshoot Awards (2018)
*"In a different light", solo exhibition, Stir, Cambridge (2018)
*Honourable Mention (Non-professional/Fine Art), International Photography Awards, 2017
*Honourable Mention, Moscow International Foto Awards 2017
*Photo Portrait Exhibition, curated by Elizabeth Avedon, SxSE Gallery, Molena, GA (November 2017)
*Finalist, Henri Cartier Bresson Passporte Prize for Street Photography, 2017
*Finalist, TZIPAC Award (October 2017)
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