“I started doing photography because there I found a way to tell things”
If there is something that is clear to me, it is that nobody has given me anything, I don't come from a family of photographers from whom I was able to learn, everything was a series of circumstances that have led me to where I am now.
I started doing photography because there I found a way to tell things. I spent two whole months without talking to anyone, not my sister, not my friends, not my family... I was dead inside, so photography saved me in those moments, especially when I needed to communicate and I "couldn't". Since then I created a bond with my camera and It has never left me.
I would like to think that they are images that make the viewer stop and think because you realize that a link is being established. Each one of my pieces tells a part of my life in a “hidden” way.
I don't usually classify the type of photography I do in any field. I think that for anyone who develops creative work, the moment you put a label on it, you are cutting off possibilities.
Only a few privileged photographers in the world can live taken photos, but the rest of us mortals have enough to be happy with what we do and spread that happiness to the rest. We have to enjoy the present, not think about the past and think only a little about the future.
I enjoy what I do, because maybe one day I will remember it with longing or maybe one day, I just look back and everything seemed like a dream. Meanwhile, I will continue living mine and knowing that when I look back, I will feel super proud of everything I did, because at least I tried.
Beatriz Urrutia