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| From the series "Extraños / Strangers (Iowa City)" © Edwin Ochoa |
To awake from our extended summer break, we're starting off by featuring a selection of portfolios made by the nine
fototazo microgrant recipients during their 10-day workshop at the University of Iowa in late June and early July.
Their portfolios will be featured over the next several days with a short text on the work in the original Spanish with an English translation presented after the images. Today we feature the work of
Edwin Ochoa and
Andrés Sánchez Muñoz.
This week we have featured the work of
Margarita Valdivieso and Juliana Henao Alcaraz and also of
Aura Lambertinez and Natalia Lopera.
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| From the series "Extraños / Strangers (Iowa City)" © Edwin Ochoa |
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| From the series "Extraños / Strangers (Iowa City)" © Edwin Ochoa |
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| From the series "Extraños / Strangers (Iowa City)" © Edwin Ochoa |
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| From the series "Extraños / Strangers (Iowa City)" © Edwin Ochoa |
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| From the series "Extraños / Strangers (Iowa City)" © Edwin Ochoa |
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| From the series "Extraños / Strangers (Iowa City)" © Edwin Ochoa |
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| From the series "Extraños / Strangers (Iowa City)" © Edwin Ochoa |
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| From the series "Extraños / Strangers (Iowa City)" © Edwin Ochoa |
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| From the series "Extraños / Strangers (Iowa City)" © Edwin Ochoa |
Extraños / Strangers (Iowa City)
Edwin Ochoa
In June 2015 I traveled to Iowa City. The first goal when I started this project was to understand the dynamics of the people there, the places they inhabit and how they affect each other.
This project is about a place unknown to me. The strategy I used to start to to get to know it was to approach people I met on the streets, strangers who for some reason called my attention and to form a momentary, but honest bond with them.
En junio de 2015 realice un viaje a la ciudad de Iowa, el primer objetivo cuando empecé el proyecto era entender las dinámicas de las personas, los lugares que habitan y como se afecta el uno al otro.
Este proyecto es sobre un lugar desconocido para mí, la estrategia que utilice para empezar conocerlo fue acercarme a las personas que encontraba en las calles, a esos completos extraños que por alguna razón llamaban mi atención y entablar con ellos un vínculo momentáneo pero honesto.
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| © Andrés Sánchez Muñoz |
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| © Andrés Sánchez Muñoz |
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Andrés Sánchez Muñoz
This work began as an exploration of American architecture, which differs greatly from ours in Latin America. Gradually, however, it began to take on a somewhat melancholy character, and became a portrait of an alienated, desolate or perhaps a self-absorbed American society in which small worlds are created with few inhabitants.
The project, however, may eventually take on another character, another perspective by exploring lighting and also new locations.
Este trabajo comenzó como una exploración sobre la arquitectura americana, que tanto difiere a la nuestra en Latinoamérica. Pero paulatinamente fue tomando un carácter un poco más melancólico y se transformó en un retrato de una sociedad Estadounidense alienada, desolada o quizá ensimismada en donde se crean pequeños mundos con muy pocos habitantes.
Pero el proyecto puede ir tomando otro carácter, otra perspectiva mediante de la exploración de luces y ahora nuevas locaciones.
