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2025 Ohio Artist Registry Juried Exhibition
Jeyson Gonzalez Barragan
1000Cleveland Heights Ohio 44118 United States Home Phone: 8327099795 Website: website
Bio
Camilo Gonzalez Barragan, is an independent artist from Bogotá, Colombia, there studied film and TV at the UNITEC university of Colombia. He found in analog photography a means to develop his ideas and tell his stories while working on audiovisual projects. Cinema, music and painting have been his inspiration to create his own perspective of life. His work often is based on personal experiences, portrays themes such as melancholy, nostalgia, freedom, silence, loneliness, forgetfulness and his dreams. His work has been featured in various magazines and galleries including The Paradox Magazine, Classics Magazine, CAN journal, RAW, Hardy & Nance Studio, Cleveland Print Room, moCa, Bayarts, JDBC, Cleveland City Hall, Beck center for the arts, Logo Studio. Camilo currently lives and works in Cleveland, Ohio, where he has found inspiration in the magic of its forests, streets, and people.
Artist Statement
The 35mm is the essence of photography, analog processes have inspired me to create my art and have become my way of understanding the world around me. With my camera, I feel I can stop time and transform it. Analog has become a tool of introspection to express my feelings, emotions and inner conflicts.
In photography I have found the possibility to see what others cannot see. Through my art I seek to express the memories that weave our existence: silence, nostalgia, distance, loneliness, nature and time. People, spaces and landscapes become impressionistic paintings when they are exposed on film to give life to those worlds that we forget to contemplate because we are in a hurry chasing the superficial.
We know how to observe, but do we really see? My quest is for people to see beyond the everyday world and not to be indifferent to the world around us, today we are forgetting the beauty of life: to live, I want them to reflect on memory and what we have forgotten. My photographs are a way to free the spirit, enter a state of meditation and reconnect with your inner self.