Blog 4: Art

I always liked painting when I was little, but I never wanted to dedicate myself to art, however,

I quite like to see paintings and analyze them, I think the good thing about this expression is

that interpretation can take different forms. I remember that once I participated in a painting

contest in primary school, I did not win but I learned a lot.

Currently I like photography, I hope I can learn a lot from photojournalism, thanks to my film

studies I learned a lot about visual composition and how to assemble or capture the designs

of the photos well. I really like to see photo exhibitions, paintings or artistic works, my favorite

Chilean artists are, Camilo Yáñez and Natalia Babarovic. The most interesting exhibition I saw

of Yáñez was, "Post Populi" (Figure 1), at the AFA Gallery in Santiago last year and Natalia,

his exhibition that I like the most is “La Caverna” (Figure 2), which he did with four more artists

and exploring clarity, the humor, the lack of politics and the excess of conscience of the capital.

(Figure 1)

(Figure 2)

As for photojournalism, I think it is an interesting form of art and communication,

I think it mixes these two aspects, to show the different realities that people live on the planet.

 My favorite photographers are Marco Gualazzini, Italian, who became famous for being one

of the finalists of the World Press Photo in 2019, with his photograph

“The Lake Chad Crisis” (Figure 3), which shows an orphan boy who passes

by a wall with drawings showing grenades and rockets in the African country Chad,

where they are suffering a terrible crisis. Another of my favorite images from that exhibition,

was the winning photo, by the American journalist John Moore, with his applauded photograph

that shows a girl crying on the border between the United States and Mexico (Figure 4),

after the migration problems facing the country.

(Figure 3)

(Figure 4)