honorable mention
Gaspar Marquez united states
title
The Bodyscapes
After developing my first photos in the darkroom, I fell in love with the contact sheets as a whole image and I decided to honor this process adding my own personal twist to the classic recipe. These images belong to a series called The Bodyscapes. My unique artistic style is an expression of creating images in an almost mathematical way, dissecting the subject aesthetics piece by piece, somehow creating an illusion of movement as a consequence of the 35 or more shots taking in the making of the "contact sheet". Therefore, these images all together are seeing as a whole and allow the viewer to witness an almost life-size 2D sculpture in a Neo-Cubism fashion.
The major motivation of my work is to explore its relation-limits between all these elements: film photography, movement, scale and the figure. I attempt to blur these lines, mixing them up and as a result creating an ambiguous vibration or optical illusion between a 2D image and the audience.
photography and the arts, as a child would take his mother’s camera
and shoot just for fun without her consent. Later on ,moved to San
Francisco CA. and wandered through America.
He's a self taught photographer , but took plenty of classes at prestigious schools such as the School of The International Center of Photography and The School of Visual Arts in New York city, not to mention he's got a BA in Business Administration in Mexico.
He's working as a Freelance photographer /Videographer doing Fine Art /fashion . He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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entry description
I experiment with the Figure form. My work is a celebration of film photography, movement, Cubism and scale.After developing my first photos in the darkroom, I fell in love with the contact sheets as a whole image and I decided to honor this process adding my own personal twist to the classic recipe. These images belong to a series called The Bodyscapes. My unique artistic style is an expression of creating images in an almost mathematical way, dissecting the subject aesthetics piece by piece, somehow creating an illusion of movement as a consequence of the 35 or more shots taking in the making of the "contact sheet". Therefore, these images all together are seeing as a whole and allow the viewer to witness an almost life-size 2D sculpture in a Neo-Cubism fashion.
The major motivation of my work is to explore its relation-limits between all these elements: film photography, movement, scale and the figure. I attempt to blur these lines, mixing them up and as a result creating an ambiguous vibration or optical illusion between a 2D image and the audience.
about the photographer
Gaspar Marquez was born in Mexico , soon developed an addiction forphotography and the arts, as a child would take his mother’s camera
and shoot just for fun without her consent. Later on ,moved to San
Francisco CA. and wandered through America.
He's a self taught photographer , but took plenty of classes at prestigious schools such as the School of The International Center of Photography and The School of Visual Arts in New York city, not to mention he's got a BA in Business Administration in Mexico.
He's working as a Freelance photographer /Videographer doing Fine Art /fashion . He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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