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About Me

Photographer Statement

I define myself as a photographer with a wide range of interests in the photography spectrum, from artistic to street photography, from landscape to abstract. My motivation to photograph is the impulse to capture that decisive moment we all know about and have felt in our guts. And the attraction for forbidden environments. Emotions direct my impulse to shoot. The trigger can be a journey, when my perception of the "other" is revealed as a necessity of eternal record through my camera. It is a tireless search for evocation. To evoke a feeling a moment, a place, a situation... and may it always remain. From the periphery of the comfort zone offered by spaces such as Namibia or Patagonia, to something close like Amsterdam that drags me thoughtlessly until I plunge into the bowels of the red light district I confess a contradiction in my career where the constant presence of loneliness, harshness and sadness of the human condition, converge with the avid desire to present it in an aesthetic way.

Esther Garrison is a content-focused photographer, specialising on environmental, land rights and human rights issues. As a sustainability auditor and consultant, she has had access to document the great challenges of the 21st century, such as climate change, the fragility of indigenous communities and the flagrant plunder of their lands. Thanks to her profession she frequently travels around territories compromised by climate change and human rights. Throughout her career she has evaluated projects in dozens of countries, from the Democratic Republic from Congo, to Chernobyl or Siberia.

The guiding thread of her projects is the relationship between human beings and their environment, past and future; and the loneliness and isolation in a connected world.

In addition to "In Karaganda" (Exhibition at the Royal Photographic Society, 2022); the author has developed long-term projects such as: "Trafficked Girls from Vietnam" (2015) for the NGO Pacific Links in San Francisco (USA); "Communities affected by the industry carboniferous, from Colombia to Siberia" (2016 - 2020); "Daily Lives of the Trans-Siberian" (in course); "Deconstructed realities" (ongoing) on perceptions of reality distorted by the use of legal drugs; "Transformation - Patagonia" (ongoing) on what ephemeral landscape in the context of change climate. In parallel, she develops another long-term project tour linked to her hometown "Chinchón, you will not sleep in my oblivion" (in progress)

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