Good Times

Hello everyone! I hope you`re very well. Today, I`ll talk you about a very special photograph for me. In my schooling, I don`t have the normal studies, like Biology or English class. I study visual arts, and more specifically, publicitary design, and in this mention I study photography during four years.

For graduated of the thirst level (2007), we had made an investigation about one photograph saw in class. So I chose to Pierre & Gilles, gay artists of France that make kitsch photographs and later they painting on the developing photography. After investigation, I need made a photograph inspired in the Pierre & Gilles`s job, and here started the story of this photo.

This photograph was stage and took for me with a camera of 35 mm, with black and white roll of 200 ASA, in an overcast day and in 500 for velocity. The esthetic and the social concept –for example gays and his relation with the Church- that use they inspired me for made a work of games between Maria`s Virgin and a contemporary young, in Kitsch terms. The woman that you see is a classmate, and the man is his boyfriend. The idea was that don`t see sharp because is a “private” and “incorrect” scene, and the spectator is convert in gossip and ghoulish person.

Independent the significant or significance of the photo, I like so much because I enjoyed prepared the photograph and was the art director for a day. Ah! this isn`t the definitive photo, this is a study for the final work, and this is for a next ocassion.

See you!