They are photographs that are almost not photographs, taken with cinema film of 35 mm, I load un properly   in a  camera. From the very beginning I will let random processes to intervene in the shoot, the image will be blurred, moved, touched. Then I will interfere in the developing process, scratching, veiling, touching to alter.

    The street Cacabuco, Buenos Aires 2012

       The street Chile, Buenos Aires 2012

    San Telmo, Buenos Aires. 2012

Las calles-beyond the surface

is an ongoing project that I started on in 2006

The work is from  the barrio of San Telmo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.  

The first pictures are made from my impressions after a bicycle ride from Bolivar street in San Telmo to La Boca. My Argentinean photographer friend who invited me on this trip, said whatever happens don¥t stop  As the streets where passing by, it looked like an old cinemafilm. The passed and the present melted together in this long cinema-visions that has later developed into panoramic photographs.

After the first visit and my stay in Buenos Aires, I have come back many times to these streets, searching and wandering what is behind the surface of my first impressions. What storys lies beyond my first impressions. Beyond the surface.

”They are photographs that are almost not photographs, taken with cinema film of 35 mm, I load un properly   in a  camera. From the very beginning I will let random processes to intervene in the shoot, the image will be blurred, moved, touched. Then I will interfere in the developing process, scratching, veiling, touching to alter. In my work as an artist that captures there is a game of election and experimentation of the place, a “being there” so that the space penetrates into my gaze, the gaze of my eye-camera. I never go and take a shot quickly, I stay, I have an experience in the places that I portray. It is not a touristic snapshot, it is a diver’s experience, a being-in-the-place.