Desamparo
Desamparo is a project that talks about Cuba and above all about the people of Cuba. In this specific case, about one of the cities in Cuba, which is Holguín, but in the end, talking about one province is talking about all of them because despite the fact that in our daily lives we manifest individually, we suffer for the same thing and live the same thing. Desamparo is a series of portraits of many of those who surround me, either indirectly or directly, they are different people, different faces but who share the same reality that affects everyone and leaves sequelae, sequelae, and internal wounds that no matter how much they Whether they are hidden or not visible to the naked eye, it is practically impossible to erase them from the face. Each photo was taken in a different situation at a different time and each person was going through something different as well, but they all had in common the loss of something and hopelessness. In this country it is almost impossible to break away from those feelings. One of the portraits is of my grandmother who was just going through the loss of her husband, my grandfather. Another is from a homeless man, who is deaf and is well known in the city for wandering around churches and public spaces a lot asking for food. Another of them is a boy who had tried to take his own life as a result of a breakup. Each one has a particularity and faces diverse but very painful situations. Everyone is in a state of helplessness both emotionally and philosophically, and before such a state each determined being has adopted a unique position, be it resignation, pain, attack or violence to others, strength, indifference to the environment that surrounds them, even dissociation from the actually almost a mental illness. With Helplessness I want to show that everything that human beings can drag with them due to stormy situations that go far beyond their power and how these leave more than deep marks on people's faces. The look is the last refuge of the soul to show what it hides inside and that not all of us get to see. Helplessness is this, a look of overcoming, help and memory for all those who experience pain and are defenseless and also a thesis in the form of a photographic essay on the period of adaptation and overcoming, and personal position in the face of pain. As clarification, each photo was taken in the process of adaptation-overcoming of each subject's personal problem to record that impact already left after the particular event of each one happened.
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Diana AraujoPhotographer
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Country of Origin:Cuba
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Camera:Nikon D3000
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Lens:AF-S DX Nikkor
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Focal Length:18-55mm
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Aperture:1:3.5-5.6G V.R
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Student Project:No
My name is Dayana. I'm 20 years old. I'm photographer and filmmaker. I'm studying at Art's Superior Institute. I'm working at Desde Cero's Audiovisual Producer. I did some exhibitions on my country.
My esthetic try to show the side worst of human condition but also the better part of us that try to hide but always its go out.