Fine Art: Conceptual (AMATEUR) - HONORABLE MENTION
Valley of the Hearts Delight
Photo © Joshua Sarinana
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San José, California is the Capital of Silicon valley but it was once referred to as the Valley of the Hearts Delight. The later moniker speaks to the history of the city, which is that of an incredibly rich farming region. During the 1950s and ‘60s San José’s population grew nearly ten times in size, eventually transforming farmland into high-tech firms.
Nearly 15 years ago I left San José to move to pursue higher education. When I come back to visit I drive around to see how much has changed and look for familiar landmarks. Technology companies drive the every increasing rate of change taking place in Silicon Valley. Familiar markers of home are torn down for new high-end retail, luxury apartments or high-rise. Memories of my hometown are plucked away and replaced with something new and seemingly unreal, leaving me with a sense of amnesia.
Given San José’s contributions to inventing technologies that change culture, politics, and governments it is thought of as a place that invents the future. However, this area has very few markers of its young history. This series aims to capture this transitional period through architecture when San José underwent rapid urbanization.
To accentuate feelings of the past I use the frame of the film stocks. I am limited to 12 captures in utilizing my Hasselblad 500 C/M. In doing so, I must take the time to carefully choose, to slow down, and to frame a mirrored image, which creates a temporal contrast between past and future.
Sariñana has had a solo exhibition at the Griffin Museum of Photography, shown at the Center for Photographic Arts, the Houston Center for Photography, the Los Angeles Center of Photography, Photoville, and the Center for Fine Art Photography.
Most recently, Sariñana was named as a Critical Mass 2017 Top 200 Finalist. His work has been recognized by the Sony World Photography Awards, Latin American Fotografía, PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris, and the Head On Photo Awards. His work has been published in several periodicals, including Silvershotz, Better Photography, and SciArt Magazine's. Sariñana's work has been featured on The Guardian, Buzzfeed, The Huffington Post, Time, and CNN. One of his images was also licensed for an iPhone 6 commercial ad. He is also a two time recipient of the Council for the Arts Grant at MIT.
Sariñana has published several articles on the intersection of photography and neuroscience including in the photography periodicals Don’t Take Pictures and The Smart View. He has also been interviewed by several influential photography blogs as well as Vice Magazine. Sariñana currently resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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San José, California is the Capital of Silicon valley but it was once referred to as the Valley of the Hearts Delight. The later moniker speaks to the history of the city, which is that of an incredibly rich farming region. During the 1950s and ‘60s San José’s population grew nearly ten times in size, eventually transforming farmland into high-tech firms.
Nearly 15 years ago I left San José to move to pursue higher education. When I come back to visit I drive around to see how much has changed and look for familiar landmarks. Technology companies drive the every increasing rate of change taking place in Silicon Valley. Familiar markers of home are torn down for new high-end retail, luxury apartments or high-rise. Memories of my hometown are plucked away and replaced with something new and seemingly unreal, leaving me with a sense of amnesia.
Given San José’s contributions to inventing technologies that change culture, politics, and governments it is thought of as a place that invents the future. However, this area has very few markers of its young history. This series aims to capture this transitional period through architecture when San José underwent rapid urbanization.
To accentuate feelings of the past I use the frame of the film stocks. I am limited to 12 captures in utilizing my Hasselblad 500 C/M. In doing so, I must take the time to carefully choose, to slow down, and to frame a mirrored image, which creates a temporal contrast between past and future.
About author:
Dr. Joshua Sariñana was born in San José, California. He obtained his neuroscience degrees at the University of California, Los Angeles and in a Nobel Prize winning lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). After MIT, Sariñana became a research fellow at Harvard Medical School where he studied the computational processing of spatial navigation.Sariñana has had a solo exhibition at the Griffin Museum of Photography, shown at the Center for Photographic Arts, the Houston Center for Photography, the Los Angeles Center of Photography, Photoville, and the Center for Fine Art Photography.
Most recently, Sariñana was named as a Critical Mass 2017 Top 200 Finalist. His work has been recognized by the Sony World Photography Awards, Latin American Fotografía, PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris, and the Head On Photo Awards. His work has been published in several periodicals, including Silvershotz, Better Photography, and SciArt Magazine's. Sariñana's work has been featured on The Guardian, Buzzfeed, The Huffington Post, Time, and CNN. One of his images was also licensed for an iPhone 6 commercial ad. He is also a two time recipient of the Council for the Arts Grant at MIT.
Sariñana has published several articles on the intersection of photography and neuroscience including in the photography periodicals Don’t Take Pictures and The Smart View. He has also been interviewed by several influential photography blogs as well as Vice Magazine. Sariñana currently resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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