Chullachaqui, author's book, 18x14cm, digital print, 2018
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I am in a conflict with photography.
When I started to decline away from photography, I wrote down “photography is a fear of creation”. For the creation in photography comes after the act of photographing.
The photography is a tool of communication; it is a medium to transfer the reality. The photography the way I was using it was a documentation. It was a tool for memorizing, a cure for not forgetting.
I still love the image. However, I cannot be the one who produces it.
I am in conflict with the action of taking photographs.
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What are you doing? I need to save it. But it is me! It is not you. It is an image of you. Like a chullachaqui? Like what? A chullachaqui. We all have a chullachaqui, he is similar to us, but it is empty, hollow. This is just a souvenir of a moment that passed. A chullachaqui has no memory. He just wanders around the world, empty, like a ghost, lost in a time without time.
