This exhibition talks about the need to break the silence, to give light and make visible the reality of people in the process of integration, anonymous artists or ordinary people that we all are. The images show a normalizing and integrating nuance, an understanding of reality from the perspective of its own protagonists.
Have you ever thought about how you are? Who are you? If you are where you want to be? Typically, we don’t reflect on how we are, what makes us happy or brightens our days, unless something breaks our stability.
As a method or instrument of artistic expression, photography holds all the necessary characteristics to make us more cognitively and creatively effective.
It was a great find. Few books speak so clearly about the processes of therapeutic photography and the use of photography in personal spaces and social intervention.
Design your own cartography and include the elements in your city that you would represent but are not shown on the official map.
A photograph is where the interests and desires of the viewer intersect, and these are just as important for the person taking the photo as they are for the viewer. Sometimes, the message aligns, and sometimes, it does not. That is why photography, rich in meaning for both the photographer and the viewer, is always an OPPORTUNITY.
Ansel Adams used to say that photography is not only done with the camera. “You do it with all the images you have seen, with all the books you have read, with all the music you have listened to, and with all the people you have loved”.
I don’t like to see a wonderful photograph and have my gaze fall on that wound; on the fiery mark of the creator, invalidating the visual walk of the person who observes and contemplates. Therefore, I invite you to start your critical thinking, another way of looking.
I propose a photographic exercise that you can do with any type of camera, including a mobile: I GIVE MYSELF PERMISSION.
You have often wondered: “Why do my photos not reflect my gaze?” “Why is the photo not exactly what I have seen?” You feel a mismatch between the photograph you thought you would obtain and its final result…
