Weekend Portfolio: Carlos Becerra

Images and Text by Carlos Becerra

These works explore the materiality of the photographic process and the properties of light. As unique, handmade pieces, they are a direct result of my intervention with light and the chromogenic paper. In most photographic objects, white correlates to light; however, with these cameraless creations, I produced a palpable feeling of light within the areas void of light. By removing any physical and literal contexts which are usually present in conventional photographic images, I encourage the viewer to withdraw from the physical world, and explore an inscape of light and dimension, a space beyond the sum of the elements that created it.

Carlos Becerra (b. 1997 Colombia) is a recent graduate of SVA class of 2021. As a lens-based artist, his work focuses on exploring the photographic medium from both a scientific and artistic perspective, and understanding the ways in which these aspects of it intersect and coexist.