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Federico Gama
He was born in Mexico City in 1963. Photographer specialist in photojournalism and documentary photography since 1988. His work has been extensively recognized in different occasions: Grange Prize 2009 by the art gallery of Ontario, Canada, to the prize All Roads by National Geographic, main prize of the 10ª Biennial of Photography that organizes the Center of the Image, National prize of Cultural Photojournalism Fernando Benítez, first place in the I Biennial International of Photography of Puerto Rico, honorable mention in the first edition of the Prize New Journalism in Cartagena, Colombia, second place in the Contest Anthropological photography called by the National School of Anthropology and History. He has had lots of collective and individual expositions in Mexico suffices, Italy, Argentina, Guatemala, Brazil, Germany, Chinese, United States and Spain. At present he works as a freelance photographer forthe magazines Expansion of Mexico City, Works, Environments, In Style, Scale, Entrepreneur, High Level, Day Seven and Energy Today. In parallel he carries out the documentary series for TV UNAM from Mexico "People like us".
Stories on the skin (1996-2007)
This project represents a visual context that relates the binomial tattooed-tattooing, where it is not more important the tattooes or the personage but the world that surrounds them. In each photography I try to find some keys of the original idea that motivated them to set permanently a drawing, a text, a design or whatever on the skin. That is to say, that the photographs tell stories of the tattooed and the tattoes they carry. But honestly my work does not come from an idea of study systematized or anthropological, but more a game that I share with my models, I invite them to that explain me visually why they were tattooed, why they chose determined images or which are their motives. Although sporadically if I take photographs of tattooed people that incidentally I find on the street, the images that I prefer are the ones that come from a previous interview, to create a private setting for each character.
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