Personal / A Journey into the Shadow
There is a black space, revealing itself as an image the more it’s observed. There is beauty, elegance, questions, memories, dreamt and forgotten images...
Timeless images that address something within us. A quiet journey in silence, or perhaps an impelling buzzing agitation.
This is an ongoing project seeking beauty in any situation and subject, conveyed through the simplest palette, my ‘favorite’ color, an exercise of pure aesthetic pleasure regardless of the genre (still life, nude, architecture, portrait, landscape).
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Personal / Forma
Forma explores the body from a state of prejudice-free curiosity.
The nude is one of my main themes and the choice of non-normative subjects seeks new ways of looking at the body and going deeper into the hardware of the human being, contained and -perhaps- also defined by its body. Blurring the limits between still life, portrait, abstraction and classic nude, I find myself in a space where rules seem to disappear and where I can investigate with fascination the possibilities of aesthetic so-called ‘imperfection’ as the main subject.
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Personal / Petroleum
The dancers’ bodies -covered in black bodypaint- pose and move in front of a white background describing rhythm, delicacy and blunt strength. They are living statues, testimonies of strength, dedication and hard work. “Petroleum” arises from such idea, making both the dancers bodies and the pictures an exercise on straightforward graphic force.
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Personal / Multi
“Multi” is the logical consequence of beauty photography and my interest in form, expression and even identity.
A beauty gets deformed in flesh and color stained skin and turns into something histrionic, ugly and beautiful at the same time. The impression of movement is also there, as the collage shows different moments in the still image.
I want the viewer to reexamine the idea of beauty and hopefully my idea that "too much" gets in the way of enjoyment, as a beautiful young face turns into something else just by juxtaposing different moments.
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Personal / Body Sketches
White background, ambient light, push the ISO a bit, drop the shutter and voilà. Unreal, smoky forms isolated in the frame are unveiled. These body sketches, outlining a moving body, thus becoming anonymous and timeless, check both boxes in my “beauty and simplicity” motto. The simplicity of stripping everything to the essentials; the beauty of serendipity. The blur between reality and the shapeless world, hidden while the camera shoots, only to be discovered later on with childish excitement.
Unlike „Journey to the shadow“, where the images are carefully composed and the dark tones richly render a scene or an idea, here I let the model and the camera’s shutter speed „decide“ what’s going to be the final image: charcoal-like strokes waiting to be discovered, fanciful accidents given by pure chance. I literally have no idea what I’m going to get (she’s improvising as well) and it’s a quite satisfying exercise, perhaps because lately I am just letting go and trusting whatever comes, on a personal level. It’s „time“ in a picture, space occupied by the subject’s moving body for maybe half a second.
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