Apariciones

The forty or so night shots in this series were taken in almost complete darkness with a Minox infrared hunting camera. The series addresses the imagination of the communities – the daily fear, a life never far away from death – trying to transform these experiences into tales close to their traditions, and to the Colombian sense of “magic realism”. Overexposing the eyes and the skin as well as the vegetation, the infrared flash makes the facial features of the villagers unrecognizable, and tends to blend them into their environment. The photographs are meant to be printed on glass sheets, displayed on shelves either individually or in friezes whose composition can vary.