ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Rolleiflex SL66, Carl Zeiss Planar 80 mm f/2,8
f5,6 - 1 sec., mirror pre-released, tripod & shutter release cable
Ilford FP4+ at 125 ASA
Adox Rodinal (1+25) (N+1) 13 min.

Days of Winter is a journey, an exploration that aims to examine skin through the nudity of certain shapes, as a search from the whole to the part, from a perspective of the entire body to a glance of fragments of such a body, from representation to abstraction.

The scope of Days of Winter is, consequently, twofold: a story and its narrative, and a visual journey. As a story, Days of Winter aims to place the viewer before a drama: A woman is shown, revealed only in part as if her body will deliver a monologue. A self-exploration, a journey again, but this time from the skin to the inside, to what is hidden. There is also a sense of loss: The woman is not young. She’s reaching maturity.

As a visual journey, Days of Winter aims to present the body from a sculpture perspective, away from the conventional approach of idealising the female body. The nude in my series is abstracted to lines and shapes, dissected and rearranged. The flesh, its closeness, the clean, honest, direct representation of skin and parts of a body have been the light that has guided my journey along a body. As a printer, I have been involved in a physical manner. In my darkroom, the prints are revealed as a physical object, worked by my hands and transformed by the action of chemicals. Trying to pursue the atmosphere, texture and tones of certain graphic arts, I have experimented with overexposing the film and increasing development times and by using hard papers.

AUTHOR
ROBERTO A. CABRERA (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, 1971)

Self-taught amateur photographer, interested in Analog Black & White Photography.

Licenciado (5 years degree) in Philosophy. Writer. Based in La Palma, Canary Islands.

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