I like to see and recognize my photographic work as an integral part of my personal introspective and psychoanalytical process and as a reflection of my own experiences and feelings. My personal work relates to the exploration of the body and everyday spaces, and it is motivated by the discovery of textures, contrasts, and shapes, as a mean of recognition and contemplation of my own mood which could also be extended to another’s. I photograph from a close and intimate perspective with attention to detail, as a strategy to explore, investigate and delve into each of these elements with the intention of finding relationships and meanings or simply establish a framework that allows me to organize ideas and to express my emotions. In this sense, my project penumbra refers to that space in which light and shadow subtly intermingle to hide personal histories and allow to unveil or glimpse that which originates the darkness itself. This play of chiaroscuro thus composes a frame of reference to an intimate, introspective, and melancholic space, impregnated with feelings and emotions that in complicity with the shapes and textures reveal a personal story, full of experiences, thoughts, fears and desires.

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About

Jose Alfredo Garza is an emergent photographer born in Mexico City in 1974. He is a civil engineer with postgraduate studies in systems and planning theory. In the field of photography, he holds a two-year diploma in photography from the Academy of Visual Arts (AAVI) (2015) and a one-year diploma in lighting techniques from Gimnasio de Arte (2016), along with several workshops related to the technique and the photography act. In 2017 his photobook Schatten was awarded by the Academy of Visual Arts. He is currently participating in the seminar and photobook laboratory of the Miradas al Fotolibro 2021 platform, where he was selected along with another 10 photographers, and he is also currently enrolled in the 2021/2022 photography master programme of PHotoESPAÑA (Theories and Artistic Projects).