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Francisco Gonzalez Camacho (b. 1990) is a Spanish visual artist based in Helsinki. He is currently studying a Masters' degree in Photography at Aalto University.
His practice can be described as contemporary photography with focus on themes such as family, mortality and the connectedness between landscape and self.
The aesthetics of Gonzalez Camacho’s latest work reaches – in some parts – towards pictorialism and poetic narration. It proposes a contemplation over the photographic image and the ways it may convey its narrative, by interwinding together mix techniques, namely infrared photography, bookmaking and the reproduction of the photographic image using analog processes and a variety of materials – such as wood.
Education
2020- Photography Master’s Programme at Aalto University, Finland
2017-2020 Documentary Photography at University of South Wales, United Kingdom
2011-2012 Photography at Escuela Arte Granada, Spain
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Group show at Espoo Cultural Centre, Espoo, Finland (Upcoming)
2023 Bloom 2023, Young Artists’ Exhibition at Lokal Gallery, Helsinki, Finland (Upcoming)
2023 17th Edition Arte Laguna Prize, Arsenale of Venice, Italy
2023 Freedom Redefined: Rotterdam Photo, Netherlands
2023 MoA in Photography 23, Finnish Museum of Photography, Finland
2022 “Darkness” group show, FLOOR_, Seoul, South Korea
2022 Salong CFF 2022, Vulkano, Gothenburg, Sweden
2022 BOOKED 22, MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre, Cable Factory, Finland
2022 Emerging Vision: Biennial Student Show, Colorado Photographic Art Center (CPAC), Denver, United States
2022 International Juried Exhibition (IJE) at the Center for Photographic Art (CPA), California, United States
2022 Fringe Arts Barth, Bath Open Art Prize, at 44AD Artspace, Bath, United Kingdom
2022 AAVA 2022, Art in Porkkala, Porkkalanniemi, Finland
2022 WIP, The Auxiliary Project Space. Middlesbrough, United Kingdom
2020 Emergence, The Glasgow Gallery of Photography. Glasgow, United Kingdom
2020 Free Walkers, Seili Field Course, Väre, Aalto University, Finland
2019 The Mutterscream: Crepuscular Lush, Jacob’s Market, Cardiff, United Kingdom
2018 USW group exhibition at Guernsey Photography Festival. Guernsey, United Kingdom
2018 Una mirada a Africa, Centro de Congresos y Exposiciones, San Fernando, Cadiz, Spain
Press/Publications
2023 Booooooom. Online
2022 Elsewhere, Self-publish Photobook, edition of 100. Print
2022 FishEye Magazine. Online
2022 EMC Magazine. Online
2022 ArtDoc Photograhy Magazine. Online
2022 Handbali Magazine Volume 4. Print
2021 Discarded Magazine. Online
Awards/Grants/Residencies
2023 Kolga Tbilisi Photo Award 2023, shortlisted
2023 The Åland Archipielago Guest Artist Residence
2023 Chico Review & Publishing Prize 2023, attendee
2023 Descubrimientos PhotoEspaña 2023, selected
2022 Art and Media Grant, Aalto University
2022 Booooooom Photo Book Award
2020 ND Awards, honorable mention
2020 Monovisions Awards, honorable mention
2019 The Reginald Salisbury Travel Award
Contact
For commissions, print sales, or anything else, please don't hesitate to contact me.
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Fran Gonzalez Camacho © please ask permission before use.