Ingrid Raymond
Kolumbia – Colombia
Bogota
Born in Bogotá, Colombia; 1975
I have been an amateur photographer for about 10 years, I do analogue black and white photography. I got my pinhole camera in 2015 (-A lovely ZERO 2000-)and it is the camera I use the most now.
I currently work as a process coordinator in a sculpture studio in Bogotá, Colombia.
My professional qualifications are:
1998 – Fine Arts Degree; Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Bogotá, Colombia
2008 – Postgraduate degree in art history and theory of modern and contemporary art; Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
THE UNFOLDED HOUSE
At this moment, I make photographs that depict the inside rooms of old big houses. These buildings are meant to be preserved as part of the architectural history of Bogotá, Colombia; However, contemporary life makes it impossible for them to be used as homes, which they were built for.
It is not that easy to find new functions for them; sometimes they are adapted, and therefore transformed to become offices or institutional buildings. A very few of them still house families and a lot of them are in a sort of limbo, empty and waiting for their new mission. I have photographed all these three situations of them.
To me, the quality of Pinhole photography resembles in a very special manner the way that images are recorded in our memory; and all the experience involved in the making of these photographs, that is the long-time exposures, developing and printing offer an engaging relation with matter and the technique.