Francisco Gonzalez Camacho
SPAIN
Francisco Gonzalez Camacho (b. 1990) is a Spanish visual artist based in Helsinki. He holds a BA in Documentary Photography at the University of South Wales (UK), currently studying a Masters' degree in Photography at Aalto University (FI). Gonzalez Camacho's work presents a process-based approach interweaving photography and graphic printing methods with Nordic nature as the major subject.
He has been exhibited internationally including The Finnish Museum of Photography (FI), The Griffin Museum of Photography (US), The Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (JP) and featured in publications such as Der Greif, Booooooom, C41 magazine and GUP magazine among others. He was awarded a photobook award by Booooooom back in 2022 and selected as a finalist for the Carte Blanche students by Paris Photo in 2023. He is part of the permanent collection of The Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (JP), The Museum of Avant-Garde (CH) and The Amedeo Modigliani Foundation (IT).
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Elsewhere
Challenging the restless feeling of not belonging, otherness and the cultural constrains, the landscape has offered me a cathartic relief, shaping a renewed sense of connectedness with nature. Making both real and imaginary landscapes, I dissolve space and time, creating an interruption, an absence, giving a feeling of being elsewhere.
Reality is suspended, reminding us we are just a small part of nature, united with it. There is an invitation, seeking us to ponder and reflect, to create a moment of emptiness, a spark of consciousness. In all the nuances of simplicity the divine is revealed, helping us to understand the world through an act of solitude.
Photography becomes an instrument through which I can reveal not only the nature that encloses me, but the nature that reflects the landscape within.
A silence arises reproducing a calm and precious universe, suspended in time, next to the world itself. A transcendental space evoking an allegory of a place called home.
