Special Mention 2025
FRANCISCO GONZALEZ CAMACHO
“ Elsewhere ”
Francisco Gonzales 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
“Hail Mary, bobbin lace, serpent's thread ” interweaves her story with that of the Andersson sisters, who, living in Sweden at the brink of the 20th century, spent their lives creating textiles for their wedding coffins. Yet none of the four sisters ever married and their intricate textiles were never to be used, leaving a complex record of their lives while challenging the definition of textile making as a practical fem craft with a singular purpose of domestic use.
Following the words of the feminist textile historian, Rozsika Parker “to know the history of embroidery [and, by extension, the history of textiles] is to know the history of women” I trace tales written with thread, in the act of seeking patterns and stitches between the generations of women before me. The work continues the weaving of these histories in the act of refusal of their erasure.
