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M贸nica Ochoa
Photographs by: M贸nica Ochoa smilingsammonica@gmail.com
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Curated by: Kathleen Brey kathleen@viewfinder.org.uk
Viewfinder Photography Gallery 52 Brixton Village London SW9 8PS
Translated by:
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Dr. Susana Cavallo editor@viewfinder.org.uk
First published November 2010
Edited by: Lisa Robertson editor@viewfinder.org.uk Design by: Mandana Ahmadvazir designer@viewfinder.org.uk
漏 The artists and authors. The views expressed in this publication are not necessarily the views of the publisher or the editors.
M贸nica Ochoa smilingsammonica@gmail.com
I don't believe that I can explain why the art of photography has always produced a strange enchantment in me. Perhaps it has been a way to resolve my disquiet with respect to beauty and fantasy, as it enables me to create magical worlds within the one I inhabit daily. There is no doubt that photography is a vision that compliments our perception reality. It enables us to capture moments that become documents in time; documents that tell of stories that have happened, those unique and unrepeatable stories that constitute human history. Photography has the virtue of permanence and the freshness of immediacy, of that second that becomes trapped for all time in an instant, transforming the fleeting episodes of our life into a narrative universe. But photography can also let us play with reality and mold it according to our taste, evading the purely evident and real to engender a new universe born from our inner experience. Magical worlds sculpted with light whose characters are born from our heart, characters generated through images born from our mind and our soul who inhabit a different and more complete world. I have dedicated 20 years of my life to photography with this as my guiding idea. Yet I know that I have travelled only a small way along the path that will lead me to the parallel universe in which I ultimately wish to dwell.
Translated from Spanish by: Dr. Susana Cavallo Dean of Faculty and Professor of Spanish, Loyola University Chicago
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Mónica Ochoa
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No creo que pueda explicar que extraño encantamiento produjo en mí el arte de la fotografía. Sólo sé que vi en ello la capacidad de resolver mi inquietud respecto a la belleza y la fantasía creando mundos mágicos dentro de la dimensión real de este en el que vivo. No cabe duda que es una mirada que complementa la percepción de la realidad que nos rodea. La fotografía nos permite plasmar esos momentos que quedaran como documentos en el tiempo, documentos que narran historias que han ocurrido, momentos únicos e irrepetibles que trazan la historia de la Humanidad. Tiene la virtud de lo permanente y la frescura de la inmediatez, del segundo que queda atrapado para siempre y se convierte en todo un universo narrativo que contará al observador que llega fugaces episodios de la vida. Pero la fotografía también nos permite fantasear con esa realidad y moldearla a nuestro gusto, evadirnos de lo meramente evidente y real para conformar otros universos en los que la realidad la establecemos nosotros. Mundos mágicos esculpidos con la luz donde habitan personajes propios paridos desde nuestro corazón, personajes que se crean a través de las imágenes que nuestro cerebro y nuestra alma moldean con mimo hasta ubicarles en esa otra realidad que nos gusta y donde permanecen para siempre creando un mundo distinto que aspira a ser completo. Con la intención puesta en este propósito he dedicado más de veinte años de mi vida a la fotografía y sé que no he recorrido más que una pequeñísima parte del camino que espero algún día me confirme que mi universo paralelo está finalmente terminado para poder habitar en él.
Bar y ni単os
Bar
Virgen
Vendas I
Vendas II
Guest star
Woman
Amour
Happy day
Insticts
Lux Life
New Star
Oh! What a night!
Signs and scars 1
Signs and scars 2
Signs and scars 3
Signs and scars 4
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