The Metaphorical Wet Plates: I. Blackout Insights

• Prize
  Gold in Fine Art/Nudes
• Jury Top 5 Selection

  Kenro Izu

• Photographer
  Pablo Fanque
• Technical Info
  Wet Plate Collodion, Glass 18 X 24 Cm; Alfred Brückner Rabenau Large Format Camera
• Photo Date
  2024

"The Metaphorical Wet Plates" is the series of images obtained using the collodion process. Like metaphorical "OH" cards, these photographs can be a substrate for projection of the mental processes, the depths of the subconscious and the individual myths about the inner and outer world, where erotic attractions, states of fear, problems of self-identification, insoluble existential questions, beauty, monstrosity, madness are intertwined... Each image is a narrative from which the spectator can expel the author and find something of his own there.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. Make love, not war! Pablo Fanque's Fair is the project in the field of visual arts based on photography that combines historical and contemporary techniques in aspiration to present in images a beauty that is physically tangible. The project was founded at the end of 2019 - beginning of 2020.