Cambridge School of Art

Marina Velez

My biographical photographs document the lives and events of different members of my family in a diary-like format.  By exploring this intimate life I attempt to highlight the zone between one’s subjective experience of the world and the objective conditions that determine that experience.
My photographs also intend to question the line between telling and showing.  I work with non-manipulated digital images, at times using a recycled aesthetic of Photoshop as a means of interrogating the link between truth and photography. These are diary pictures, registering everyday life, accepting what’s being given and re-staging the real.

The apparent disconnection between my photographs only demonstrates the desire for inclusion over exclusion. It shows an openness to touch every aspect of experience. Ultimately, my photographs do not want to be a clear illustration of perception and knowledge of the world and of the ‘other’; they just want to highlight the drive of that perception. These images do not sum up, but instead they mirror a very intimate mental map, and they are connected in a biographical way.

I use digital technology, because I find it questions the physical status of the image, when digitalized the image has less and less substance. Please feel free to visit my website, www.marinavelez.com.

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