Dugong

• Prize
  Silver in Nature/Underwater
• Photographer
  Camilo Diaz
• Agency / Studio
  Camilo Diaz
• Technical Info
  F9- 1/320 Iso 200 Canon R5
• Photo Date
  24/01/2024

Better to stay with the anecdote than with the doubt. Recently, I took a one-way trip to Asia. I didn’t return. I still haven’t returned, and I hope never to return. This thought took hold of me in my studio last Friday, and I wondered, why go back? It’s best for that memory to stay where it was born and eventually mature from a memory into oblivion. I believe I also belong to that place, the place where memory dwells, because in the coming years, this dugong will be called oblivion.

Camilo Diaz, born 1981 in Medellin, Colombia, studied Visual Arts at the National University of Colombia and further Fashion Photography, Advertising and Film Studies at various Universities in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His artistic work focuses on the intimate portrayal of people and their immediate lives and surroundings. More than a depiction, his photographs reveal an intimate discovery and allow shared momentum. His subjects are not strangers but rather people with whom he enters a story.