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Amazonian photograms in Tambopata
Roberto Huarcaya, a Peruvian photographer with original graphic pieces, once again visits our ecolodges, this time Posada Amazonas, for a new Amazonian photograms project in Tambopata.
Record photos by Raúl García
Once again, the Amazon is the source of inspiration for art projects, and this time it receives the visit of one of the most original photographers of our times, creator of works such as La Nave del Olvido, Continuum, Playa Pública-Playa Privada, and Amazogramas. Roberto takes us through his artistic works to see natural spaces and scenes from a different perspective using frames.
Record photos by Raúl García
What are photograms?
The photograms are each one of the impressions made on a film by means of the entrance of light to a camera, regulated with a shutter. When the film is developed, the frames can be projected onto paper to obtain a photograph or photo.
What is the photographic project in Tambopata about?
“The project tries to make a group of photograms (photography without cameras) where the photosensitive paper is placed directly in the jungle among the foliage with a small flash, the light is shot at the plants and their shadows are recorded on the paper that later It is necessary to chemically develop in a portable laboratory that we have brought, the smallest are photos of between 30 meters and 3 meters, «says the artist, who is in Posada Amazonas, an ecolodge that has a forest protected by the Ese Eja Native Community of Infierno for decades.
Record photos by Raúl García
Amazogramas in Peru and the world
In 2014, after his visit to the Bahuaja Sonene National Park, to the Tambopata Research Center in Madre de Dios, Peru, Roberto Huarcaya, develops the Amazograms, a series of 3 frames of 30 meters x 108 cm unfolding a roll of photosensitive paper of 30 meters long among the foliage at night. The development was done in a specially conditioned dark room using water from nearby rivers. The liquid remains of the development were transported to Lima to be disposed of without affecting the environment.
Amazogramas was exhibited in Lima at the Casa Rímac in 2014 and toured the world passing through Brazil at the Valongo Festival, Santos, in 2016, at the Peruvian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennial, Italy, 2016, at the Parque Gallery Rodó, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2015 – 2016, at Dina Mitrani Gallery, Miami, 2015-2016, and recently in France in 2022 thanks to WSC Peru.
We look forward to this new project by Roberto and his team, taking the Tambopata Amazon through Peru and the world again, putting on display the importance of conserving our forests from environmental crimes.
Record photos by Raúl García
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