Photo © Gabriela Tuparova
Creative - NOMINEE: Gabriela Tuparova
The skin of summer
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“The skin of summer” is a kind of disassambled travel diary, it’s pages thorn and isolated.
Although the series is about a summer on the road the diary does not focus on time and place but rather on an emotional journey.
The photographs, far from being the typical images of the holidays, try to capture the sensation of pleasure and nostalgia that overwhelm me during the summer.
These sensations and experiences end up engraved and recorded on the skin as well as the sunlight records the photographic image on the photosensitive support. Our own skin is a notebook in which all the journeys are written. With our skin we feel the environment: the heat and the cold; the water, the wind, the touch of the others. The skin is our tender and sensitive shield with which we experience the world and we protect ourselves from it.
The series is made of chemical black and white prints. These are made on handmade cotton paper on which liquid photographic emulsion is applied.
About author:
I am a photographer and an arts lover. Originally from Bulgaria I’ve lived and worked in Barcelona for the last 16 years.
I first discovered analog photography during my Fine Arts studies (Universidad de Barcelona) and since then I’ve been passionate about traditional photography.
My work often draws inspiration from everyday life and the things that surround me. I take pictures as much to document life as to understand it myself. Often my attentions is drawn to a scene, whitout knowing exactly why; it’s only after I’ve developed the pictures that I can look at them and begin to understant why I took them.
Analog photography allows for a slow creative process, since I take a picture until I can actually see it months can go by. Sometimes I can’t wait to finish the roll of film and see a certain picture I’m excited about, and other times I find in the negatives forgotten surprises. It is precisely this mistery and anticipation, this exercise of imagination that still makes photography exciting for me in such a photographed world.
Regarding techniques, I am particularly interested in old analog processes, such as liquid emulsion, wet colodium and cyanotype, as they produce aesthetic results that are very different from traditional and digital photography. These types of procedures are often unpredictable and random and the results are never completely reproducible, which makes each copy unique, just like the experience of producing it.
Although the series is about a summer on the road the diary does not focus on time and place but rather on an emotional journey.
The photographs, far from being the typical images of the holidays, try to capture the sensation of pleasure and nostalgia that overwhelm me during the summer.
These sensations and experiences end up engraved and recorded on the skin as well as the sunlight records the photographic image on the photosensitive support. Our own skin is a notebook in which all the journeys are written. With our skin we feel the environment: the heat and the cold; the water, the wind, the touch of the others. The skin is our tender and sensitive shield with which we experience the world and we protect ourselves from it.
The series is made of chemical black and white prints. These are made on handmade cotton paper on which liquid photographic emulsion is applied.
About author:
I am a photographer and an arts lover. Originally from Bulgaria I’ve lived and worked in Barcelona for the last 16 years.
I first discovered analog photography during my Fine Arts studies (Universidad de Barcelona) and since then I’ve been passionate about traditional photography.
My work often draws inspiration from everyday life and the things that surround me. I take pictures as much to document life as to understand it myself. Often my attentions is drawn to a scene, whitout knowing exactly why; it’s only after I’ve developed the pictures that I can look at them and begin to understant why I took them.
Analog photography allows for a slow creative process, since I take a picture until I can actually see it months can go by. Sometimes I can’t wait to finish the roll of film and see a certain picture I’m excited about, and other times I find in the negatives forgotten surprises. It is precisely this mistery and anticipation, this exercise of imagination that still makes photography exciting for me in such a photographed world.
Regarding techniques, I am particularly interested in old analog processes, such as liquid emulsion, wet colodium and cyanotype, as they produce aesthetic results that are very different from traditional and digital photography. These types of procedures are often unpredictable and random and the results are never completely reproducible, which makes each copy unique, just like the experience of producing it.