PERSONAL

PHOTOGRAPHY

The trajectory of Roberto Ortiz Giacomán for more than 20 years, includes a wide range of personal works, have been created in order to communicate and share with others their experiences in particular their way of seeing and understanding the world.

The choice of the landscape, as a photographic genre, is due to the fact that it can combine several of his interests and concerns with respect to his trade and philosophy of life, as they would be, the respect and admiration for nature, the knowledge he has of the natural environment and the geography of the region, the location and location of the shots to transform, for example, the orography of the environment in metaphors of the world when it was still a virgin, the care and dedication in the final impression of its images, and, among others, by means of what resources your best public exhibition can achieve.

To illustrate these works we have included here a selection of the Vision of the Mountains series, which is the turning point between the previous work and what it has continued to do to this day. This series also served to define with precision the concept of taking the place of nature to, and from that point of view, photograph what man has done. It follows, the San Judas Cannon, one of the three or four channels of the Santa Catarina River that have not yet been contained by any dam, so it follows, say, in a virgin state or without domestication. Figures in the landscape, is the series that Ortiz devotes to demonstrate the relative and absurd that is considered superior, owner and lord, of nature when to be in the middle of it compares its scales. On the other hand, endearing characters, tells us about the intimate relationship that can be established with nature; endearing characters are those cacti, biznagas, trees or bushes that we invariably find in the same place and that seem to welcome us always without asking for anything in return. Finally, the most recent series, Cloud Atlas, is still in formation; the examples it contains show, on the one hand, Ortiz Giacomán's interest in these natural phenomena, and on the other, his tireless search for strictly photographic forms.