Being made in december 2020, in ESAD (College of Arts and Design) in the Communication Design course, in the scope of the subject of Image Laboratory, it was a work that gave wings to our imagination.

In the first place we should choose 6 different artists, could be photographers, designers or linked to any other area. Then we should present them and talk about them.

In a 2nd phase, we should select an author, from the previous 6 we chose, and a work from the same author, and materialize the project taking into account conceptual, aesthetic, technical, functional or formal influences.

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My work

I chose a very well-known photographer, Sebastião Salgado from Brazil, being one of my favourites with very pertinent themes in their photos.

I chose two of his photographs, one about Mankind, more specifically the refugees in Mali, and the other one about Nature, choosing a photo taken in Alaska.

The work, entitled Reflection, aims to convey the same feeling that Sebastião's photographs convey to me – reflection –providing an insight and a certain mystery, where the two most nuclear and notorious themes explored by the photographer are portrayed – Mankind and Nature.
All the work intends to reflect the same aesthetic that Sebastião uses in his works, which resulted in my choice for this proposal.

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For the making of this work I decided to represent myself, backwards, frame-centered, as a spectator of Sebastião's work. On my left there's a representation of the refugees photo and on my right a representation of the nature photo that I chose.

As canvas I reused a A2 piece of card and draw the first sketching lines with a pencil. Then, for the first layer and to define the position of the lights and darks I used black and white spray cans, giving the main stain. For the drawing and the picture itself, including all the details, I used only two black fine point pens (0,3mm and 0,7mm), a white pen (1,5mm), plus a black marker (20mm).

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Approach: Realism Painting

Media: Spray Paint, Markers & Thin Tip Pen on Cardboard

Format: 50x70 cm

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At the end of this page are also the two original photos of Sebastião Salgado I used as a reference.