honorable mention
Grace Hoyle spain
title
Bigger Problems
Using multiple visual languages, this project navigates through a forest of shadows where conscious and unconscious thought manifests itself as healing pulsations, focusing on an uncertain hope. Where self-representation becomes ritual and the vast visual information symbolises the manifestation of a body overwhelmed by layers of pain, traveling between identity and the revaluation of a recovered body.
For more information, visit https://www.biggerproblems.xyz/
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entry description
Bigger Problems Chapter I is a visual narrative of my personal journey from having breast implants to the knowledge of a disease called breast implant illness. This condition is not recognised by the medical community, and was dismissed by my own close family when I expressed the discomforts. I thus chose to have my implant devices removed as well as the adjoining tissue called “capsules” that naturally form around breast implants for proper recovery.Using multiple visual languages, this project navigates through a forest of shadows where conscious and unconscious thought manifests itself as healing pulsations, focusing on an uncertain hope. Where self-representation becomes ritual and the vast visual information symbolises the manifestation of a body overwhelmed by layers of pain, traveling between identity and the revaluation of a recovered body.
For more information, visit https://www.biggerproblems.xyz/
about the photographer
Born in Lima, Perú in 1980 currently based in Madrid, Spain. Her first studies in photography started in The School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City and she finished her studies in Lima, Perú in Centro de la Imagen. Recently she studied Expressive Art Therapies as a way to integrate photography with personal healing. She has had many collective exhibitions and, in prizes and recognitions she counts with the Second Prize in Pampa Energía FOLA in FOLA Fototeca Latinoamericana in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has worked as a food photographer for many years, collaborating with many books and editorials like Armonía de Sabores with Apus Graph which had a mention in Art Gourmand París in 2011. She studied the Master in Photography at PhotoEspaña in 2021. She has recently discovered NFTS as part of her work, engaging with a community of fellow photographers.back to gallery