About
I began my life as a photographer a bit late, after my struggle to find myself in engineering I finally decided to follow my Father's footsteps and pursue my love for photography. My professional career is as a graphic designer, but photography is a special, unique way to control and mitigate my bipolar condition. It is my personal treatment and many of my works are deeply influenced by my changing and contradicting mood states. But it was the discovery of the alternative photographic processes and the influence of Omaira Abadia that defined, and refined my approach to photographic art.
As a Colombian visual artist and designer my work is focused in finding artistic pathways to meld indigenous cultural roots with a global worldwide vision. Currently my goal is to experiment with mixtures between classical (analogical) and digital techniques of representation, capture and printing of images; trying to find a personal way to express my vision and feelings on subjects. My main theme is the city: it landscape, it struggles, it stigmas, it inhabitants, its outsiders. The city as an extension of greater humanity and its relationships. I live in a city which is a mixture of so many elements and factors, a destination for thousands of people running from 40 years of warfare, a place to live, learn, dream and suffer. A city destroyed and rebuilt, full of people giving the best to build and rebuild their own dreams and lives. But above all, a city full of hope and hard work. In my own work I try to reflect my concerns about my role like a man and an artist in a process between traditions and preconceptions, and more post-modern perceptions about myself, my sexuality, my place and my future. Between traditions, rituals, history tempered by (nihilist urges and hedonistic streaks) I try to find equilibrium.
As it is for many of my work is cathartic and a declaration of pride about my condition; my art pieces try to talk about my country, our wars, our pain, our dreams, our cultural melting pot and our never ending search for meaning. The other ever-present theme in my work is the concept of role as a cultural creation which has little relationship to human beings and is the fruit of powers in some specific space and time. I don’t believe I create photographs, instead I think I build images using photographic medium and techniques as a part of the process of giving material sensate structure to concepts and ideas. I deeply admire artists able to capture meaningful instants allowing them to stand in time. But as a creator, I see myself more like an artisan, like a designer who plays with ideas, thoughts, cultural values and pressures; who attempts to balance tensions, tones, shapes in the pursuit of visual pieces that are imagistic in their deepest nature, but beyond the act of capture alone.
Works
Il barbieri: Bogotá's face
3 musketeers: Bogotá's face
The smiler: Bogotá's face
Mom: lith print
Self: lith print
Sleeping beauty: Salt print
Gibson's mesiah (Fr¢zen series)
Cocoon (Fr¢zen series)
Weight of time (Fr¢zen series)
Saint of killers (Fr¢zen series)
Shadow Of The Self Series: Salt print
Shadow Of The Self Series: Salt print
Wisdom on the skin (Sabiduría a flor de piel) http://yourmung.bugs3.com/sabiduria/
Wisdom on the skin (Sabiduría a flor de piel) http://yourmung.bugs3.com/sabiduria/
Wisdom on the skin (Sabiduría a flor de piel) http://yourmung.bugs3.com/sabiduria/
Wisdom on the skin (Sabiduría a flor de piel) http://yourmung.bugs3.com/sabiduria/
Wisdom on the skin (Sabiduría a flor de piel) http://yourmung.bugs3.com/sabiduria/
Wisdom on the skin (Sabiduría a flor de piel) http://yourmung.bugs3.com/sabiduria/
Wisdom on the skin (Sabiduría a flor de piel) http://yourmung.bugs3.com/sabiduria/
Wisdom on the skin (Sabiduría a flor de piel) http://yourmung.bugs3.com/sabiduria/
Urban Museum: https://www.behance.net/gallery/807299/Urban-museum
Urban Museum: https://www.behance.net/gallery/807299/Urban-museum
Urban Museum: https://www.behance.net/gallery/807299/Urban-museum
Urban Museum: https://www.behance.net/gallery/807299/Urban-museum
Urban Museum: https://www.behance.net/gallery/807299/Urban-museum
L'informe: Some double exposures using lith film, scanned and edited digitally. https://www.behance.net/gallery/1615081/Linforme
L'informe: Some double exposures using lith film, scanned and edited digitally. https://www.behance.net/gallery/1615081/Linforme
L'informe: Some double exposures using lith film, scanned and edited digitally. https://www.behance.net/gallery/1615081/Linforme
L'informe: Some double exposures using lith film, scanned and edited digitally. https://www.behance.net/gallery/1615081/Linforme
L'informe: Some double exposures using lith film, scanned and edited digitally. https://www.behance.net/gallery/1615081/Linforme
L'informe: Some double exposures using lith film, scanned and edited digitally. https://www.behance.net/gallery/1615081/Linforme
La série des coins (The series of corners) Entry description Photography is both a mirror and a mirage. Each photography speaks of who is behind the lens as much as it speaks of the subject in front of it. It is a register not only of surfaces, shadows and lights but also of emotions, fears and thoughts. This series was born with another goal in mind, but over the time (5 years or so) it became more and more related with thoughts about human psyche, dark places inside our minds, and my own mental states. As a person with functional autism, some OCT and bipolar disorder; for me the labyrinths of the individual and collective mind are a passion.
La série des coins (The series of corners) Entry description Photography is both a mirror and a mirage. Each photography speaks of who is behind the lens as much as it speaks of the subject in front of it. It is a register not only of surfaces, shadows and lights but also of emotions, fears and thoughts. This series was born with another goal in mind, but over the time (5 years or so) it became more and more related with thoughts about human psyche, dark places inside our minds, and my own mental states. As a person with functional autism, some OCT and bipolar disorder; for me the labyrinths of the individual and collective mind are a passion.
La série des coins (The series of corners) Entry description Photography is both a mirror and a mirage. Each photography speaks of who is behind the lens as much as it speaks of the subject in front of it. It is a register not only of surfaces, shadows and lights but also of emotions, fears and thoughts. This series was born with another goal in mind, but over the time (5 years or so) it became more and more related with thoughts about human psyche, dark places inside our minds, and my own mental states. As a person with functional autism, some OCT and bipolar disorder; for me the labyrinths of the individual and collective mind are a passion.
La série des coins (The series of corners) Entry description Photography is both a mirror and a mirage. Each photography speaks of who is behind the lens as much as it speaks of the subject in front of it. It is a register not only of surfaces, shadows and lights but also of emotions, fears and thoughts. This series was born with another goal in mind, but over the time (5 years or so) it became more and more related with thoughts about human psyche, dark places inside our minds, and my own mental states. As a person with functional autism, some OCT and bipolar disorder; for me the labyrinths of the individual and collective mind are a passion.