honorable mention
Silvino González Morales colombia
title
Sabiduría a flor de piel (Wisdom on the skin)
Women and men who are pillars for their communities and which knowledge and life must be take in account for a better future.
A honor to work with Gustavo and Juan Yonda in this project. My most deep thanks to each one of the people Who let me be part of their lives and take an small snapshot for this project.
It includes an itinerant exposition, a website and a free e-book. From 18.000 photographs taken during 4 months 230 were delivered in hand to the people who gave me the honor to take an snapshot of their lives. And I selected 10 for the itinerant exposition which has been displayed in 3 Reservations of the Nasa and Misak people so far.
The website: http://yourmung.bugs3.com/sabiduria/
The e-book: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/785282/sabiduraaflordepiel.pdf
Exposition and printed material: https://www.behance.net/gallery/20503353/Sabiduria-a-flor-de-piel-photo-essay-and-exposition
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entry description
Sabiduría a flor de piel (Wisdom on the skin) is a visual homage to some of the elders of the aboriginal people Nasa and Misak from Colombia.Women and men who are pillars for their communities and which knowledge and life must be take in account for a better future.
A honor to work with Gustavo and Juan Yonda in this project. My most deep thanks to each one of the people Who let me be part of their lives and take an small snapshot for this project.
It includes an itinerant exposition, a website and a free e-book. From 18.000 photographs taken during 4 months 230 were delivered in hand to the people who gave me the honor to take an snapshot of their lives. And I selected 10 for the itinerant exposition which has been displayed in 3 Reservations of the Nasa and Misak people so far.
The website: http://yourmung.bugs3.com/sabiduria/
The e-book: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/785282/sabiduraaflordepiel.pdf
Exposition and printed material: https://www.behance.net/gallery/20503353/Sabiduria-a-flor-de-piel-photo-essay-and-exposition
about the photographer
As it is for many 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.back to gallery