Leica Lounge · November 9, 2017
Silvia Lizama
Silvia Lizama gave a presentation showing how a lifetime of influences has impacted her image making process. She showed different bodies of work, talked about the inspirations behind the work and gave a brief presentation on how she hand colors her black and white photographs.
Artist statement:
Our daily lives are full of stress, anxiety and pressure. There’s never enough time to do the things we must do, much less time to do the things we would like to do. How often do we take a moment, to really look around, to see what’s in front of us, to see what’s in the shadows; to see the special places. Sometimes I do take the time. Sometimes I push everything else away and just look. Sometimes I’m even lucky enough to have my camera with me.
I have been photographing my world for over 40 years. I have been fortunate throughout my life time to have been able to travel to exotic places in Latin America and Europe, as well as my own neighborhood, capturing images with my camera along the way.
My images were captured in black and white film using a medium format camera or more recently digitally captured and printed in a traditional darkroom using gelatin silver paper. After printing the images I hand colored the surface with photographic oils. The carefully applied coloring makes each image unique, adds to the fictional quality and hopefully makes real the world I witness.
- Cuándo
- November 9, 2017
- Dónde
- Leica Store Miami, 372 Miracle Mile, Coral Gables
