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            Artist Statement: 
 
"I have been working in photography for almost 20 years now, and I have 
explored different approaches to the medium. At times I tend to make 
photos without much logic, and afterwards I find a reason to make them 
into a series. In this case, the photos come first and then an idea or 
concept that unites them. In others, it is the idea that sparks the 
images. I have times when the simplest image without any manipulation 
marvels me, and others I feel the need to manipulate, transform and 
invent something else than what the images initially shows.  
 
I don't question myself much about all this, since I strongly believe 
that what is important is what an image can communicate than rather how 
it does so. And putting limits to this, discarding other options doesn't 
sound very interesting to me at the moment. Lately, I have been working 
with still images to produce videos and explore other possibilities." 
 
About "Long Landscapes" and "Anonymous Portraits" 
 
"In "Long Landscapes" I was interested in time.  These landscapes are an 
effort to capture the passage of time.  Even though they might seem 
"natural", these landscapes are only virtual since the human eye can 
never "see" them. By adding up 8 or 16 images I create a photograph of 
something that doesn't exist to the real world.  Photography has been 
defined as a small fragment of time frozen in an image. The sole fact of 
building this image by adding up different moments in time questions 
this definition since the image exists only because it is a sum of 
moments, and time has passed by from the first to the last in one photo. 
 And in a few of them, time is more clearly captured when we see an 
action or a person in two different places. In this series I attempt 
photograph time rather than space. 
 
The "Anonymous Portraits" reflect for me moments of loss of senses. A 
lack of horizons that make me feel that it is only the day-by-day 
moments that one can hold onto. In one of these moments I felt strong 
empathy with these lonely bus travelers at night. Watching from the 
outside they appear involved in themselves, self-absorbed in their own 
daily life, and absent from what is going on around them." 
 
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