Howdy! I am so glad to introduce myself to the Flower City Arts Center community. My name is Carlos, I am from Medellín, Colombia, and I will be a Photography Artist In Residence until June 9th, 2018. I get my degree as Cultural Anthropologist one year ago and I will start an MFA in Photography this fall.
I truly believe that my relationship with the world has been created thanks to photography. Pictures are my way to get into the world, the reason to interact with others and the impulse to know other places and other realities. I work in relation to documentary photography by including strongly personal narratives. I have been exploring different ways to show the idea of identity and connections between cultural statements and personal narratives.
I have moved around a lot since I was a child. I have known other cultures and realities and I believe that I am creating my own home by connecting pieces from my journeys. That is why my career has been related to movement, transit, and the constantly changing identities. I would like to start working in the residency on what would become a bigger project about migration. It is tentatively called ‘arrivals/departures’, and it is a photographic journey that aims to meet and portray those who left everything behind in the search for a better future. The transit, the waitings, and the displacements. I would like to know about paths, motifs, and desires. This ethnographic exercise of images seeks to study a variety of places, activities, and people, in order to show the complexity and the wealth of the communities. Different origins, occupations, territories, and ways of life will come together in this process.
I will be around with my 4×5 and my medium format cameras, shooting color film. I will be sharing with you the development of this work, along with my experiences. I hope to have the chance to connect and meeting you all in Rochester!
