11 photographers – 11 projects
2017
Peruvian – North American Culture Institute
11 photographers – 11 projects presents a selection of works from the most recent production of the artists that make up Carlos Caamaño Proyecto Fotográfico – CCPF, an independent initiative created 10 years ago with the aim of encouraging photographic production and promoting its dissemination. CCPF does not intend to identify itself with a physical exhibition space, therefore it has become a dynamic platform, which is managed in collaboration with the photographers who are part of it, and is materialised by interacting with other actors in the sector, such as cultural centres, festivals, galleries, alternative spaces, publications and specialised fairs.
On this occasion Carlos Caamaño Proyecto Fotográfico is installed in the Galería Juan Pardo Heeren of the ICPNA, displaying fragments of eleven projects recently produced by eleven photographers linked to the platform. Although each of the series exhibited presents its own conceptual challenges, in the selection we can discover some of the thematic and aesthetic axes that arouse the interest of CCPF. With a line that fluctuates between authorial documentation and conceptual photography, the binomial “space-place” is undoubtedly a recurring theme in CCPF’s projects, which is clearly evident in the exhibition 11 photographers – 11 projects.
The representation of the concept of “space-place”, which was adopted by photography since its invention and attracted the attention of its first exponents, has been portrayed in the last century and a half by means of a specialised register of architecture, landscape and the city. With the advent of modernity, technological advances and the establishment of photography as a means of expression, this representation has flooded exhibition halls and captured the attention of major publishers, becoming one of the most photographed and exhibited subjects in the history of photographic art.
It is in this order of valuation of the photographic image oriented to space and place that the CCPF’s exhibition line is installed and developed. Documenting and analysing the close links between photography and architecture, landscape and the city is key to understanding the works presented in 11 photographers – 11 projects. Whether through a direct shot or a constructed image, the photographers gathered here stop to observe spaces and places and the way in which they are transformed, representing them as catalytic models for a host of social changes and understanding them as agents of memory.
The long-standing and profound relationship between photography and the concept of “space-place”, oriented towards forms of documentation, communication and thought, is undeniable in the interests of CCPF, and therefore indisputable in the intention of each of the 11 projects exhibited here. Projects that are the consequence of a complex process, as they test the privileged gaze of the photographer and his ability to make the invisible visible, inviting the viewer to identify relevant information in what at first glance does not appear to be so.