People: Portrait (PROFESSIONAL) - HONORABLE MENTION
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“Network culture entails hyper-connectivity, but it also implies extreme solitude, the solitude of an individual before a screen--much more connected than before, but more alone then ever.”
Roger Bartra, interviewed by Pablo de Llano, El País (13 September 2015)
I grew up with analog photography. When I was young, photographers would spend almost half their time in the darkroom, and much of their income went to pay the bills of the lab. In the 1970s, I was astonished when my father arrived with a hologram. All kinds of photography-related technological novelties appeared at my house, for my father to test. He had not only the opportunity to conduct tests with the hologram, he also experienced the first color photo processing, the first electronic flash, the first digital camera.
In parallel, as time went by I witnessed the gradual transformation of the profession of photographer, the one who used to be entrusted with leaving a record of the passage of a life and the important events in each person’s life.
Yes, science and technology every day bring improvements in our wellness and entertainment, and in many ways they improve the quality of our life. But age-old questions persist: Where do we go when we die? What is the best way to live? How do we nourish the spirit? What is the soul? What do we do with this need to say “I exist” and affirm our identity through selfies, that need to record everything we experience? Are we really less alone? Will there be fewer suicides because we have more immediate ways to “communicate” without having to pick up a phone or see each other?
Lou earned an undergraduate degree in graphic design with a major in editorial design (honorable award for thesis) from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. The is currently completing a specialty course in contemporary photography at the Node Center for Curatorial Studies Online, after signing up for a professionalization program for up-and-coming artists previously.
Fujifilm Mexico named her brand ambassador; she is one of a worldwide group of “X-Photographers.”
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“Network culture entails hyper-connectivity, but it also implies extreme solitude, the solitude of an individual before a screen--much more connected than before, but more alone then ever.”
Roger Bartra, interviewed by Pablo de Llano, El País (13 September 2015)
I grew up with analog photography. When I was young, photographers would spend almost half their time in the darkroom, and much of their income went to pay the bills of the lab. In the 1970s, I was astonished when my father arrived with a hologram. All kinds of photography-related technological novelties appeared at my house, for my father to test. He had not only the opportunity to conduct tests with the hologram, he also experienced the first color photo processing, the first electronic flash, the first digital camera.
In parallel, as time went by I witnessed the gradual transformation of the profession of photographer, the one who used to be entrusted with leaving a record of the passage of a life and the important events in each person’s life.
Yes, science and technology every day bring improvements in our wellness and entertainment, and in many ways they improve the quality of our life. But age-old questions persist: Where do we go when we die? What is the best way to live? How do we nourish the spirit? What is the soul? What do we do with this need to say “I exist” and affirm our identity through selfies, that need to record everything we experience? Are we really less alone? Will there be fewer suicides because we have more immediate ways to “communicate” without having to pick up a phone or see each other?
About author:
Lou Peralta was born in Mexico City in 1964. She belongs to the fourth generation of portrait photographers, which has a long history in Mexico. With 30 years of professional experience, in 2017 she decided to devote herself full time to contemporary photography. This same year, in a call for entries entitled “Women photographers in Latin America,” the magazine VISOR selected her in the conceptual category for her series “Despiece.”Lou earned an undergraduate degree in graphic design with a major in editorial design (honorable award for thesis) from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. The is currently completing a specialty course in contemporary photography at the Node Center for Curatorial Studies Online, after signing up for a professionalization program for up-and-coming artists previously.
Fujifilm Mexico named her brand ambassador; she is one of a worldwide group of “X-Photographers.”
BACK TO GALLERY