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My Photo scholarship 2011 entry

Worldwide | Wednesday, October 12, 2011 | 5 photos

My name is Juliana Marín and I was born in Bogotá (Colombia). I’ve been taking photos not so long ago. The disciplines of photography and documentary films appeared in my life in 2009 when I decided to leave my last job in International Relations, for coming to Buenos Aries to study cinematography.

Since then, I’ve been figuring out how to transmit a mood in a photograph, doesn’t matter whether documentary or fiction is. I recognized the complexity of what I want to get, but the truth is that I am really motivated willing very mucho to learn and improve my technique, my eye and having new experiences as a person and as a photographer.

The photos of this series intent to recall and transmit the natural mood of a very peculiar place I found out during my last year summer vacations in Bolivia.

El Salar de Uyuni is recognized as the world’s largest salt dessert and inside of this almost inhabited place you find little stories and amazing places.

A cemetery of trains from the nineteenth century was the the preamble of what used to be this place centuries ago. This train was used to transport all the minerals that were extracted from the mines, and then taken to the big cities. And Colchani, that is a small town that lies down in the middle of the dessert which is a place mainly supported by the salt extraction and processing; were the scenario for this photos.