Ganador del Gran Premio Picto de Fotografía de Moda en esta 24ª edición, the fotógrafo Christopher Barraja desvela una encantadora oda a los repos interlazados con his serie íntima “Of Chlorine et de Rosé”. A long way from his various tomas, the photographer invited the spectator to travel in busca of an embriagadoramente yodado lugar.
Before obtaining his baccalaureate, Christopher Barraja walked to the city of Marsella with the aim of studying architecture. Then I quickly heard that this campo was not the gustaba, the year after I entered the National School of Decorative Arts (EnsAD), in the 5th district of Paris. From there arose his interest in photography, which he included in crossing the Atlantic: “During my intercambio at the School of Visual Arts of New York, you had the opportunity to test fashion photography, although I never had it.
Originating in France, Barraja's photography shows details that are invisible at a simple glance and that only one can contemplate, because “the liquid, the sea, its depth, its darkness” is there, without doubt, a source of inestimable inspiration for the artist. Un día, alguien cercano a él dijo this phrase from the book The Secte of the Egoists by writer Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt: “In the universe only its beautiful details, el todo es aburrido. With these words, the invisible cobró sentido para el fotógrafo, dándole the opportunity to express freely frente a su objectivo: “Quizá los detalles estén tratando de cirnos algo, but no los intendemos”.
The photos of Christopher Barraja are only dictated by his unconditional love to his environment. His artistic fantasy led him to a fascinating liberation that constantly fueled his imagination. “You imagine your history, where you have learned, where you have busied yourself and, in some cases, where you have encountered it”, says. This ardent passion for the intimidation of our subjects is anchored in our photographs with the ardent desire of “confronting conventional elements in incongruent scenes with a particular element”. In fact, the tone of our tomas, with purity, with mineral spirits, plays with comics “climbing relationships”, as it can be the representation of a need between the backs of our friends with, at a distance, the miniatura view of a bike that suggests, según el fotógrafo, “una partida, un deseo, un momento demasiado corto y al mismo tiempo eterno”.
The photo project “Of Chlorine and Rosé” will be presented in the 37th edition of the Hyères Festival, which will be released from October 13 to 16, 2022 at Villa Noailles, and will be published in book form. The artist also worked in a new personal work titled The Light of a Body. “These collections of images are important because they are closely related to my experience,” the photo concludes.
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