Public Project
Shadow of the self
Copyright Silvino Gonzalez Morales 2024
Updated Mar 2015
Location Bogotá
Topics Human Rights, Latin America, Photojournalism

The idea behind this project is the notion of memory and past as a shadow of each one of us.

Every event in our lives is attached to us and is an intrinsically important part of who we are. 

Two negatives, each one from a different photography, a single salt print produced with both of the negatives. Two slices of time frozen in a single layer of silver nitrate. Two events separated in the time for years or maybe just seconds but united in a piece of paper as a metaphor of how each one of us is a set of layer glued by our experiences through the life.

It is also a display of how proud I'm of be a mixture of races and cultural lores: From the Celtic and European roots of my dad to the beautiful Amerindian and African roots of my mom.

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