The Spanish photographer Oscar Monzón shot the series Karma between 2009 and 2013. The series has a strong and immodest aesthetic based on the paradoxical sensation of being in a private space visible to all, allowing viewers to witness intimate moments and the most personal of acts.
Through details of skin, materials, expressions and situations, these “stolen” flash photos embody the singular relationship between a driver and his vehicle.
Praised by Martin Parr, the book Karma (RVB Books/Dalpine), won the Paris Photo—Aperture Foundation First Photobook award.
Óscar Monzón (Málaga, Spain – 1981) lives and works in Madrid. He is a member of BlankPaper collective from its foundation date in 2003, and from that year he develops different projects. He has been awarded a Visual Arts and Photography grant from the Spanish Ministry of Culture to work at Colegio de España in Paris (France) and a grant from Fundación Temas de Arte.
Óscar Monzón’s work has been exhibited at RVB Gallery in Paris, Carmen de la Guerra gallery, El Escaparate de San Pedro, Conde Duque and Antigua Tabacalera, in Spain, and has taken part in the Iberoamerican itinerant exhibitions E-CO and Laberinto de Miradas.
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BOOK
Óscar MONZÓN Karma
21X30cm
Soft cover
128 pages with gloss lamination
69 color photographs
Co-published with Dalpine
ISBN 979-10-90306-18-9
Price : 38 €
