JAVIER ÁLVAREZ MACKENNEY

1988, Santiago de Chile

Untitled (Retrato Anónimo)Monochromic negative film 6x6 scanned.

Work in progress.

The emotion of contempt Printed photographs, cardboard, paper and negatives digitalized.

Variable dimensions.2012.

The exercise was to cover part of the city of Valparaiso (Chile), in search of laboratories that facilitate abandoned photographic material, and then create a personal issue based on the representation of family time, daily or intimacy.

The idea was to build a new set of images from a mixture of the rescued and own photo creations made from a visual approach to the city of Valparaiso.

In the practice of viewing and sorting, the attempt to link these files as part of an own story, told through the eyes of others.

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Home and Memory6x6 medium format and 35mm color negative.

Serie of 50 photographs, 8x12 inch.2011.

Landscape & Resistence35mm color negative

Serie of 20 photographs. 8x12 inch.2008-2011

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Santiago+135mm monochrome film

Gelatin silver print, 12x18 inch.2009.

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