I’m a colombian photographer and designer my work is focused in find artistic pathways to melt traditional cultural roots with a global worldwide vision. Right now my goal is to experiment with mixtures between classical (analogic) and digital techniques of representation, capture and print of images; trying to find a personal way to express my vision and feelings about a lot of topics.
My main theme is the city (I live in Bogotá right now): it landscape, it struggles, it stigmas, it inhabitants, it outsiders. The city as an extension of the humans and how the humans and its relationships are a direct extension of the city. I live in a city which is a mixture of so many elements and factors, a destination for thousands of people running from 40years of warfare, a place to live, learn, dream and suffer. A city destroyed and rebuild, full of people giving the best to build and rebuild their own dreams and lives. But above all of it a city full of hope and hard work.
I try to reflect in my work my concerns about my role like a man and an artist in a process between traditions and preconceptions and more post modern perceptions about my self, my sexuality, my place and my future.
Between traditions, rituals, history and a little dose of nihilism and a hedonistic search, I try to find equilibrium. I’m a bipolar person, my work is a catharsis, 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 of happiness.
You can see in the pieces I’ve included here and the links off course, different approaches to the same underlying theme: My own relationship with others and my surroundings (physical, psychological, emotional, and alike).
