honorable mention
Mena Sambiasi spain
title
Reflections
It was born from my need of adaptation to the city where I was born and raised, but no longer lived for 10 years.
Since the photos are taken from inside the bus through the glass each photo has many layers, this turns the photo into a kind of collage.
It was on December 31st of 2001, at the age of 22, when I moved to Málaga in Southern Spain. Found new work as a camera woman. In 2005 I moved to Madrid where I worked as a post production supervisor in a production company for five years.
After watching the movie “Revolutionary Road'' I decided to quit my job and move back to Buenos Aires to study photography in more depth. I made it a weekly routine taking the bus five times a week for a few hours each day. I began taking abstract photographs and also of the people in the bus stops who seemed lost in their own thoughts, reflecting exactly how I felt. The workshop that changed my life was “Creative Photography”, where I discovered a constant in my work: reflections.
Came back to Spain in 2014 and ran the media department of a Swedish real estate agency. 2020 brought me back to Madrid where I currently reside.
I define my photography as urban visual poetics. Vibrant colors, lights, compresses textures and geometric shapes. I compose and alternative reality filled with layers, product of a curious look.
They are meant to be deconstructed. They are ambiguous and as a journey to discovery, every detail can change the initial impression. A questionable visual depth, a debate between reality and illusion.
The viewer's experience is what defines my artwork. The absence of a clear and defined message becomes the message itself. The viewer is invited to feel anything with the acceptance that in itself it is a tremendous act. There's a multiplicity of meanings that one can experience depending on the mood of the moment.
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entry description
Buenos Aires (Argentina).It was born from my need of adaptation to the city where I was born and raised, but no longer lived for 10 years.
Since the photos are taken from inside the bus through the glass each photo has many layers, this turns the photo into a kind of collage.
about the photographer
I was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1979. I studied Advertising and Movies & TV Production.It was on December 31st of 2001, at the age of 22, when I moved to Málaga in Southern Spain. Found new work as a camera woman. In 2005 I moved to Madrid where I worked as a post production supervisor in a production company for five years.
After watching the movie “Revolutionary Road'' I decided to quit my job and move back to Buenos Aires to study photography in more depth. I made it a weekly routine taking the bus five times a week for a few hours each day. I began taking abstract photographs and also of the people in the bus stops who seemed lost in their own thoughts, reflecting exactly how I felt. The workshop that changed my life was “Creative Photography”, where I discovered a constant in my work: reflections.
Came back to Spain in 2014 and ran the media department of a Swedish real estate agency. 2020 brought me back to Madrid where I currently reside.
I define my photography as urban visual poetics. Vibrant colors, lights, compresses textures and geometric shapes. I compose and alternative reality filled with layers, product of a curious look.
They are meant to be deconstructed. They are ambiguous and as a journey to discovery, every detail can change the initial impression. A questionable visual depth, a debate between reality and illusion.
The viewer's experience is what defines my artwork. The absence of a clear and defined message becomes the message itself. The viewer is invited to feel anything with the acceptance that in itself it is a tremendous act. There's a multiplicity of meanings that one can experience depending on the mood of the moment.
back to gallery