Artist References – Blanca Vinas

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Blanca Vinas born in Barcelona in 1978, graduated in Building Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. He has taken an advertising graphic at the Massana School of Barcelona. As a result of his interest in architecture, his photographic work is very focused on urban environments. He currently designs album covers, makes promotional photographs for music groups and is part of the Anodyina Zines collective. His work has been exhibited in different individual and collective shows, and is one of the artists represented by the Atelier Gallery.

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Blanca images have a sense of fantasy/dream feel to them, in most of the images they have been taken on a disposable camera, which then allows him to manipulate them once they have been developed. However to create some of the images he tampers with the actually camera so he has no control over what the images will end up looking like, which I think is a brave and different way at looking at photography, and is something that I want to experiment with in my project. One of the way that he does the image is by soaking the images in baking soda which allows the chemicals to run. He then uses double exposure in editing and merges the images together.

This image was taken in Blancas home town of Barcelona, in the image a man can bee seen walking what looks like the side if the beach. But at the bottom part of the image a view of the sky and tree can be seen. Blanca has created this image through the use of a external mask. To do this a film camera has to be used this cover a certain part of the camera lens has to be covered, and then once that real of film has been used it is then but back through the camera and then the reel of film is used again and create images such as these. These image have a sense of dream/fantasy to them. But what I like the mist about them images, and especially with film camera is the sense of unpredictably that happens when using film cameras. Because of the reel of film cam be damaged and can effect/create different light patterns on the reel of film which enhances the image in my opinion.

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