Descripción de la Exposición '...Richard Long once said that 'A work of art can be a journey,' and in my case a journey can become a series of works. I sometimes like to see myself in the old tradition of the landscape walker, the walking poet, the pilgrim even. But I don't see myself in the Romantic tradition of the solitary wanderer lost in thought. I'm not a tortured soul grappling with my demons or even struggling to make art. It's a pleasure. That is central to it for me. When I was probably around eleven years old my father put a Leica in my hands, and I have been hooked ever since! My first serious exposure to 'fine art photography' was the work of the great landscape photographers like Ansel Adams, - with whom I took a workshop in Yosemite back in the 70's-, Wynn Bullock, Ed Weston and Minor White. In this sense I was curious how I would relate to some of the places they photographed like Point Lobos and the Big Sur coastline in California and then go down to Baja, the Mexican part of the peninsula. But of course, my very first exposure to great classical photography was my father's work. Gabriel Figueroa Senior was a very important cinematographer who helped create the mythical image of Mexico back in the thirties and forties. Perhaps through his work I became aware that things have unique spatial and temporal qualities that make me see the things I photograph not as objects but as events... The combination of the possibilities of digital photography together with the elegant, fine print tradition of landscape photography to which I belong establish the poles that inform my work today. To be able to look back and work within a tradition, and to look forward reinterpreting it, rediscovering new possibilities is for me, quoting Barthes, to be able to use the camera
Exposición. Desde 19 dic de 2024 / Fernando Pradilla / Madrid, España
Formación. 01 oct de 2024 - 04 abr de 2025 / PHotoEspaña / Madrid, España
