Maria Laura Barrios Photography
Antithesis
Antithesis
As part of the Venezuelan citizens community, the author has felt strong necessity to use her photographic job as a means to express social trends in a country facing political problems of authoritarian and dictatorial government establishment and its consequences on the lives of millions of people who have been forcefully attached to a not desired regulatory system. Many of Venezuelans have demonstrated to be strong enough by adopting resilient posture on the whole fact… yet, as time passes and political decisions are taken, hunger, poverty, lack on food, medicines and a huge quantity of primary need products increase excessively… this resilience has turned out to be an exhaustive, less healthy task to hold.
This photo series is based on adjectives that describe feelings that are not commonly shown in daily basis… however, these sensations are present in a quiet but obvious manner in most individuals who constantly express concerns and complains on how their lives are constantly affected by political and social caos. So far, I have worked the following adjectives: trapped, disastrous, edgy, drowned, obsessed, destroyed, forgotten, pursued, and most recently… tied up…
In order to arrange this conceptualization, she has worked with different outstanding Venezuelan actors and actresses who have collaborated by doing an incredible job interpreting feelings of desperation and anxiety in their scenic performances. At the same time, some agreements were made so as not to use special effects on the photographic treatment and shot making, just acting and some scenography arrangements.
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Credits:
Photography and Artistic Direction: María Laura Barrios
Acting: Nerea Ferández Dorronsoro (Drowned), Laura Gardié (Destroyed) , Carlos Fabián Medina (Edgy), Raquel Zapata (Trapped), Pedro Borgo (Disastrous), Elis Blanco (Obsessed), Sandra Moncada (Forgotten), Kevin Jorges (Pursued), Gabriel Agüero (Tied Up)…
Photography and Artistic Direction: María Laura Barrios
Acting: Nerea Ferández Dorronsoro (Drowned), Laura Gardié (Destroyed) , Carlos Fabián Medina (Edgy), Raquel Zapata (Trapped), Pedro Borgo (Disastrous), Elis Blanco (Obsessed), Sandra Moncada (Forgotten), Kevin Jorges (Pursued), Gabriel Agüero (Tied Up)…
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