My Photo scholarship 2011 entry

puertaisa — Tue, 8 Nov 2011 14:15:00 GMT

My name is Isabel Puerta, I am 25 years old and I am from Caracas, Venezuela. I am an architect and I’ve been attracted to art since my early years. I consider myself as a complex person that tries to find balance between opposites, and specially to find something to learn, every day.

Photography was introduced in my life as an assignment to learn how to capture space, and since then my curiosity grew, first about controlling the camera’s technical aspects, and then I were seduced by the real complexity that photography had: if architecture is frozen music, as Schopenhauer used to say, photography must be frozen time. Time, far more than being the countdown of the seconds, it’s the sequence of moments defined by a place, a subject, a context, a viewer, and enriched by the complex connections that might exist between them and that build a lifetime. This is why I think the photography is an art: it´s unique… a thousand people could take a photograph in the same place, at the same time, but none will be the same… each one of them will use different technical aspects (exposure, ISO, lens, aperture), will see how the light hits objects differently, use different compositions, select different targets, will have different views, different approach to subjects, but above all of these, as humans, with an unrepeatable life background and cultural baggage each one will have an opinion about that instant, and reflecting it, reflecting all of these is what will define the photograph as a work of art and a way to expression.

I want to be exposed to a completely different culture and try to understand it. I want to learn how to express our differences with respect. I want to live it in order to photograph it.

Isabel Puerta

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My Photo scholarship 2011 entry