Photography as an actual and versatile element for the decoration of a house

Photography as any other type of art, is an artistic expression, an element of avant-garde where “the photographer turns into a legitimate painter of the modern life of our times…” The photographer captures and expresses with its focus a language, of being perpetuated and observed. Being a versatile element without limits.

As a photographer, I have an artistic focus, I like creating images, and later making different compositions, making photography at great scale, murals and utilitarian designs applying the most suitable technique for each work, like digitalizing on aluminum, acrylic and others, using different materials and textures.

This way, photography is being used as a language of visual communication and contemporary expression, revealing that today we live with art in another way… it is worth noticing that I oppose to the cliché of photography as a resource used just for decoration, since I believe that not all writing is literature, no all construction is architecture and not everything captured by a lens and printed is art!! It may also be publicity…

How does photography influence a specific ambience?

Photography and interventions like the ones mentioned above, compose a focal point within a space, generating different atmospheres, in its own style.

Photography can be presented in different ambience adding rhythm, color, contrast, and its election is subject to spatial dimensions. I consider that one of the big advantages is that thanks to technology’s constant movement the “photographic works of art” can define its size in pro of a necessary visual impact and this way, fix visual sensations that are not desired in a determined space. The photographer can produce works with a correct optical effect to the space, having a different feel, like: spaciousness, slenderness, depth, warmth, dynamism; reproducing an imaginary space for real contemplation.

Can there be photographs in any space? Bedroom, patio, living room, poolside, bathroom, etc?

Yes, you can place a photograph in any space, depending of the type of photograph and the material used to support it. It is worth mentioning that today with digital technology, aside from the typically used paper, you can also print in different materials like steel, glass, ceramic and others.

It is important to keep in mind before placing any type of work in a determined space, all the physical and environmental conditions for the conversation of the piece.

What do we have to keep in mind when choosing a photograph and how do we know if it is ideal for the place?

First of all, to select a photograph you should know where you want to place it, analyzing the work’s proportions and choosing a work, which you would like to live with, all this determines how idealist the acquisition is for that space desired.

Depending on where the work is being sold, you should always do a basic investigation about its history, authentification and about the artist.

I recommend reading the description of the piece, what type of photograph, support, year, series, number of editions, dimensions, and other. All of this determines the value of the piece and its value in time. Always recommend asking about its estimated durability, trying to obtain as much information as possible.

What is the importance of this decorative complement?

Placing a photograph in a determined place can change its character, giving it life and style to that space, more so, photography as a work of art, is an avant-garde element, giving that it has been used as so, only for the last decades. Thanks to the value that photography has acquired like a plastic language it has transformed into an instrument of artistic value, where it has been demonstrating its expressive capacity and the value of its activity representing the visual culture.

If a person wishes to obtain one of your photographs, how can they contact you? Will you go to the specific place and make recommendations?

Generally, if a person or entity is interested they can contact me at my place of work, by phone, email or web, depending on their geographic place.

After that, we set up a meeting, preferably at my studio, where they will get a small presentation about my work and from then onwards we set guidelines depending on the client’s necessities.

I confess that I am very reserved with my work… each creating is very valuable to me, each detailed is studied, all the processed is studied carefully. I am very careful with what comes out to the world, of that what I detach myself.

What tips would you give?

To investigate well before acquiring a work of art “not everything you see is what it looks like.”