Biography
MIS PRIMERAS FOTOS
(My first photographs)
1992. My mother gave me my first photo camera when I was seven years old. It was a Kodak Tele-Ektra 300 from the 80’s that belonged to her.
Once I got the film roll, it probably took me less than two days to finish it. And out of the twenty-four possible exposures in the roll, I only got six photos back from the lab.
THESE six photos.
As an observer or member of the audience, you can approach these images and see them as accidents; as part of an eight-year-old crazy photo spree. Or perhaps, in the best case, it can draw an image of a certain person, in a certain time, in a certain context… almost like an anthropological or social study. His interests, his surroundings, his family.
What are its values? Does it have any values at all?
Is there a difference between a Kodak Tele-Ektra 300 from the 80`s and the way film rolls were
processed back then and the immediacy in which a smart phone from 2014 can take a picture,
process it and upload it on the web in a matter of seconds?
Are we judging technology or we judging the idea behind the images? Are trying to find the values in the ways people reveal themselves through photography or are we trying to find the values in a photograph, itself?
The great thing about this era is that now these smart phones, these new digital cameras and all these new gadgets that have been coming out over the last 20 years, and people who normally wouldn't make videos or take photographs are going to be making them constantly. And it’s great. The possibilities are endless.
Someday, a twelve-year-old kid is going to make a work of art with his cell-phone. And when it happens, the so called professionalism about videos and photography will be changed forever.
When that happens, it will really become an art form.
