1st place
gold star award
Barbara Ghidini
spain 
title
Self-Portaits from a Box of Negatives
The encounter with the other, I recognize its fragmentation and make it mine ”.
This project was born during a post-accident recovery and brings together chemical explorations carried out inside of an afghan box camera from some negatives of the people I have portrayed over the years.
The images I propose are based on a balance between realism and its deconstruction to reveal the darker side of life by exploring emotions such as pain, sadness, loss, loneliness.
I am Barbara a photographer who works and experiments with different analog formats and photochemical techniques.
In my projects, I use the materiality and immateriality of photography as well as the performance to generate an impulse that pushes me beyond the known, beyond the apparent limits, in the invisible world.
In my projects, I use the materiality and immateriality of photography as well as the performance to generate an impulse that pushes me beyond the known, beyond the apparent limits.
The sequences and narratives that I compose arise from the need to question what I do not understand and from the will to stage my mental images, those visions that born with closed eyes and that allow me to imagine a subconscious universe, a place of limitless freedom where the structure of reality is constantly questioned.
With these images what I try is to reveal something to myself, something that is hidden and that puts me in a relationship with my being and at the same time that has a close relationship with spirituality.
Works of conceptual and imaginative elaboration that have the purpose of not reflecting or defining but to create a door towards a place that was not visible to us but that has always existed beyond the opaque limit of our current reality.
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entry description
“In that stilness I wanted to involve my whole body and let myself be carried away by some movement.The encounter with the other, I recognize its fragmentation and make it mine ”.
This project was born during a post-accident recovery and brings together chemical explorations carried out inside of an afghan box camera from some negatives of the people I have portrayed over the years.
The images I propose are based on a balance between realism and its deconstruction to reveal the darker side of life by exploring emotions such as pain, sadness, loss, loneliness.
I am Barbara a photographer who works and experiments with different analog formats and photochemical techniques.
In my projects, I use the materiality and immateriality of photography as well as the performance to generate an impulse that pushes me beyond the known, beyond the apparent limits, in the invisible world.
about the photographer
I am Barbara a photographer who works and experiments with different analog formats and photochemical techniques.In my projects, I use the materiality and immateriality of photography as well as the performance to generate an impulse that pushes me beyond the known, beyond the apparent limits.
The sequences and narratives that I compose arise from the need to question what I do not understand and from the will to stage my mental images, those visions that born with closed eyes and that allow me to imagine a subconscious universe, a place of limitless freedom where the structure of reality is constantly questioned.
With these images what I try is to reveal something to myself, something that is hidden and that puts me in a relationship with my being and at the same time that has a close relationship with spirituality.
Works of conceptual and imaginative elaboration that have the purpose of not reflecting or defining but to create a door towards a place that was not visible to us but that has always existed beyond the opaque limit of our current reality.
back to gallery
