FIRST PLACE WINNER - Fine Art: Nudes (PROFESSIONAL)
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"UP"
WHAT & WHY
UP is a series of photographs of girls raising their T-shirts, covering their faces while showing their breasts, in different environments, both interior and exterior.
This is a series of photographs that seek to rediscover, rewrite, rephrase, or simply shake the concept of portrait, his preconceived idea of a person posing before the artist. Normally a portrait is a photograph or a painting of the face or the bust of someone, that is done to make it known, to know who it is, and at the same time to glimpse some of the characteristics of its personality through its facial features . Well, I eliminate that face, that gesture, so that the viewer is aware of everything that surrounds him, which is also a defining personality of someone. The question is: is it?
When the face is removed, the focus is lost, and the sight is lost and wandering in the immensity of an environment in which it is not known what is definitory and what not, to compensate for the absence of the face, I include the female breast, so, lifting her shirt or sweater, she covers her face at the same time as showing the chest, which is both a very characteristic trait of the woman and can also be defined, both personally and socially. Your self-esteem is also affected by that part of your body, so I think it's a very important part, it's not the face, it defines women and it makes them focus our attention from the first moment.
Some of these women have had breast cancer, others are transsexuals who have had surgery to simply have chest. All of them are women who are proud of the breast that defines them as such. The rest are "normal" proud women.
Born in Valencia, Spain, in 1975.
I studied a degree in English Language and did a Master in Translation. Meanwhile, in 1996, I started as a documentary photographer, that was when I went to Moscow to work as a translator and learn Russian. There, I started taking pictures of the city and began my fondness for photography. After a few years working freelance (1998-2003) I started to work as a photojournalist for local newspapers and european agencies in Eastern Spain (2003-Today). Since 2011 I’m getting into the fashion photography and its great tiny world. Surprisingly, the fashion world has led me to love portraiture and in 2013 I got back to taking pictures with my medium format camera and black & white negative, let’s see where this takes me…
Also in 2013 I won the second prize of the Sony World Photography Awards in the Travel category. The Sony guys took me to do a Tour in Latinamerica, visiting Argentina, Chile, Perú and Puerto Rico.
My Clients:
Agencies: Focus, Sipa Press, Photoshot, Zuma Press, BBC News, Emblema, Contacto, Engloba.
Newspapers: The Times, Financial Times, Der Spiegel, El Mundo, ADN, Las Provincias.
My Grants & Awards:
2013: 2nd prize in the Sony World Photography Awards 2013. (Read the interview here).
2012: Docucity, documentary cinema festival: Introduction of my work “Cities from a taxi” by the Emblema agency. Milan, Italy. (See the anouncement here).
2011: Finalist in the El País “Universo en español” awards. (See all the finalists here). (*Mine, is the picture of Álex de la Iglesia, bottom centre*).
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"UP"
WHAT & WHY
UP is a series of photographs of girls raising their T-shirts, covering their faces while showing their breasts, in different environments, both interior and exterior.
This is a series of photographs that seek to rediscover, rewrite, rephrase, or simply shake the concept of portrait, his preconceived idea of a person posing before the artist. Normally a portrait is a photograph or a painting of the face or the bust of someone, that is done to make it known, to know who it is, and at the same time to glimpse some of the characteristics of its personality through its facial features . Well, I eliminate that face, that gesture, so that the viewer is aware of everything that surrounds him, which is also a defining personality of someone. The question is: is it?
When the face is removed, the focus is lost, and the sight is lost and wandering in the immensity of an environment in which it is not known what is definitory and what not, to compensate for the absence of the face, I include the female breast, so, lifting her shirt or sweater, she covers her face at the same time as showing the chest, which is both a very characteristic trait of the woman and can also be defined, both personally and socially. Your self-esteem is also affected by that part of your body, so I think it's a very important part, it's not the face, it defines women and it makes them focus our attention from the first moment.
Some of these women have had breast cancer, others are transsexuals who have had surgery to simply have chest. All of them are women who are proud of the breast that defines them as such. The rest are "normal" proud women.
About author:
Daniel Duart. PhotographerBorn in Valencia, Spain, in 1975.
I studied a degree in English Language and did a Master in Translation. Meanwhile, in 1996, I started as a documentary photographer, that was when I went to Moscow to work as a translator and learn Russian. There, I started taking pictures of the city and began my fondness for photography. After a few years working freelance (1998-2003) I started to work as a photojournalist for local newspapers and european agencies in Eastern Spain (2003-Today). Since 2011 I’m getting into the fashion photography and its great tiny world. Surprisingly, the fashion world has led me to love portraiture and in 2013 I got back to taking pictures with my medium format camera and black & white negative, let’s see where this takes me…
Also in 2013 I won the second prize of the Sony World Photography Awards in the Travel category. The Sony guys took me to do a Tour in Latinamerica, visiting Argentina, Chile, Perú and Puerto Rico.
My Clients:
Agencies: Focus, Sipa Press, Photoshot, Zuma Press, BBC News, Emblema, Contacto, Engloba.
Newspapers: The Times, Financial Times, Der Spiegel, El Mundo, ADN, Las Provincias.
My Grants & Awards:
2013: 2nd prize in the Sony World Photography Awards 2013. (Read the interview here).
2012: Docucity, documentary cinema festival: Introduction of my work “Cities from a taxi” by the Emblema agency. Milan, Italy. (See the anouncement here).
2011: Finalist in the El País “Universo en español” awards. (See all the finalists here). (*Mine, is the picture of Álex de la Iglesia, bottom centre*).
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