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Roberto Huarcaya - Camera-less Photography
These massive black and white images look like photographs but weren't taken with cameras. Peruvian photographer Roberto Huarcaya explores "emerging images" rather than "captured photos.“
His technique is "photogram"—creating images with only light and matter. He spreads massive photosensitive paper, takes it to Amazon jungle or Andes mountains, places leaves, flowers, soil on paper and triggers flash.
Materials blocking light appear white, light-touched areas appear black. Current works are large installations—"Amazonograma" series containing Amazon vegetation and "Oceanograma" series containing marine plastic waste.
Particularly interesting is using plastic waste as art material, converting waste into beautiful images while revealing environmental problems.
Huarcaya captures untouched nature from Amazon jungle, completely different from traditional documentary photography. He expresses boundaries of darkness and light felt by body rather than seen by eyes.
His work gives sensation similar to Oriental ink painting—gradations created by light soaking into paper resemble ink bleeding. Even in digital age, he evokes deepest sensibility through primitive methods of light and paper.
His technique is "photogram"—creating images with only light and matter. He spreads massive photosensitive paper, takes it to Amazon jungle or Andes mountains, places leaves, flowers, soil on paper and triggers flash.
Materials blocking light appear white, light-touched areas appear black. Current works are large installations—"Amazonograma" series containing Amazon vegetation and "Oceanograma" series containing marine plastic waste.
Particularly interesting is using plastic waste as art material, converting waste into beautiful images while revealing environmental problems.
Huarcaya captures untouched nature from Amazon jungle, completely different from traditional documentary photography. He expresses boundaries of darkness and light felt by body rather than seen by eyes.
His work gives sensation similar to Oriental ink painting—gradations created by light soaking into paper resemble ink bleeding. Even in digital age, he evokes deepest sensibility through primitive methods of light and paper.