SECOND PLACE WINNER - Fine Art: Conceptual (AMATEUR)
Botanica
Photo © Carlos Bracho
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Botánica is a series which aims to explore and place together the study of plants with peoples portraits. From morphology to the interaction with other living beings, this series aims to explore and challenge my creative side, limited by the space of my own bedroom, one light and a black fabric, I have to figure what's next for making a portrait that fills me with joy.
This series wasn't planned. By the beginning of this year I was assaulted and the psychological scars left me with a mindset of insecurity in my own house. I've always shot with natural light, my path in photography was going into the woods, the mountains and the abandoned places to make portraits where the characters could interact in some way with the surroundings, but after this I was so afraid to go out that I started to stop taking photograph.
I guess the willingness of create was stronger. I started to use some LED lights I had and invited friends to my house to shot portraits, and slowly I started learning from zero, I started learning how to shape artificial light, and how to create portraiture again by myself like I did 7 years ago. Without noticing I started to incorporate fake flowers and plants into my portraiture, even adding old paintings to them, and a couple of months later I knew I had something more, that I had an idea to mix that nature I love with the new things I got the learn, that is when Botánica was born.
This is result of my personal growing and my love for continuing learning, even after that, as I love very much painting, I started painting digitally over my images,I felt in love with my new work, and I started to heal again.
Carlos Bracho, self-taught fine art photographer who was born in Panama on August 26, 1989. As a child he was very interested in science and art, always enjoying the painting process and exploring what he could in his surroundings. He decides to study a college degree in Biotechnology following his passion for science and research; He decides to buy his first camera with the savings that year, beginning on his photography journey in 2010, but not until 2013 with the loss of his mother that his path in conceptual art photography was born.
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Botánica is a series which aims to explore and place together the study of plants with peoples portraits. From morphology to the interaction with other living beings, this series aims to explore and challenge my creative side, limited by the space of my own bedroom, one light and a black fabric, I have to figure what's next for making a portrait that fills me with joy.
This series wasn't planned. By the beginning of this year I was assaulted and the psychological scars left me with a mindset of insecurity in my own house. I've always shot with natural light, my path in photography was going into the woods, the mountains and the abandoned places to make portraits where the characters could interact in some way with the surroundings, but after this I was so afraid to go out that I started to stop taking photograph.
I guess the willingness of create was stronger. I started to use some LED lights I had and invited friends to my house to shot portraits, and slowly I started learning from zero, I started learning how to shape artificial light, and how to create portraiture again by myself like I did 7 years ago. Without noticing I started to incorporate fake flowers and plants into my portraiture, even adding old paintings to them, and a couple of months later I knew I had something more, that I had an idea to mix that nature I love with the new things I got the learn, that is when Botánica was born.
This is result of my personal growing and my love for continuing learning, even after that, as I love very much painting, I started painting digitally over my images,I felt in love with my new work, and I started to heal again.
About author:
Exploring feelings based on melancholy and loss portrayed in abandoned and timeless scenes and taking part in surrealism too, Carlos photograph as a form of therapy inspired by characters with an auto exploring journey, with a almost voyeuristic insight into worlds considered limbos where the perspective feels impersonal.Carlos Bracho, self-taught fine art photographer who was born in Panama on August 26, 1989. As a child he was very interested in science and art, always enjoying the painting process and exploring what he could in his surroundings. He decides to study a college degree in Biotechnology following his passion for science and research; He decides to buy his first camera with the savings that year, beginning on his photography journey in 2010, but not until 2013 with the loss of his mother that his path in conceptual art photography was born.
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