honorable mention
Mena Sambiasi spain
title
Pareidolia
I consider myself a very mental person, I apply logic to every task I carry out, except when I go out to photograph, there I am free. I photograph intuitively.
The images I have presented are like dreams. When we dream we don't judge. Composed of several layers (posters), or unknown textures, product of the passage of time.
When after the capture I observe these images, contrary to what I usually do when I wake up after having dreamed, when I observe them I feel that I am inside the dream, where everything is possible, I don't judge or question what I see.
I have always been interested in the passage of time and its effect. I am attracted to imperfect beauty and decontextualized details that offer the possibility of reinterpreting what I photograph.
I use a tele lens mainly (50-140mm 2.8f), which is atypical in street photography.
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
Pareidolia: the perception of apparently significant patterns or recognizable images, especially faces, in random or accidental arrangements of shapes and lines.I consider myself a very mental person, I apply logic to every task I carry out, except when I go out to photograph, there I am free. I photograph intuitively.
The images I have presented are like dreams. When we dream we don't judge. Composed of several layers (posters), or unknown textures, product of the passage of time.
When after the capture I observe these images, contrary to what I usually do when I wake up after having dreamed, when I observe them I feel that I am inside the dream, where everything is possible, I don't judge or question what I see.
I have always been interested in the passage of time and its effect. I am attracted to imperfect beauty and decontextualized details that offer the possibility of reinterpreting what I photograph.
I use a tele lens mainly (50-140mm 2.8f), which is atypical in street photography.
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
