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A talk with... Carla Cascales Alimbau

from TWTGE the end of the world/a new beginning issue, February 2014

Carla is an art lover. A full art lover. Graphic illiustrator and photographer from Spain, from her works we can see her passion for analog photography and nature. In this interview she tells us about her two projects “Getting lost” and “Roads”, two works full of emotions and feelings. A journey into nature and in ourselves, everything surrounded by soft colors, water, peace and quiet.

Hi Carla, please introduce yourself.

I’m a graphic designer, illustrator and photographer from Barcelona. I’m truly passionate about design, especially handmade projects, textures, art, photography and illustration. I love to travel, to take pictures, to capture simple, true and beautiful moments in life. More and more I realize how important it is to share experiences and learn from the people around me plus most of the time I work by myself as a freelance so in my spare time I like to enjoy it with my friends and family in something related with arts, trips, exhibitions, films, books, hot tea and good vegetarian food.

What is your relationship with nature?

For me Nature is inspiration, harmony.

What is for you an end? And a beginning?

Every night end with what does not make you happy because every morning could be a good new start.

A phrase of your renaissance.

Have less, do more.

What is your Refuge?

My friends and family.

20 years from now, how do you think the World will look?

Hopefully better than now.

What is Photography?

To capture moments.

How did you get into photography?

One day I decided to try my mother’s old Nikon analog, I just loved it.

And in art in general?

My father has always been passionate about art, at home we had many art books. When I was a child we spent hours looking at the pictures of the paintings and telling me stories about them, I loved the colors and I liked to imagine who were those strange characters. I remember Magritte really struck me and still today is my favorite painter. When I was 12 I joined an art school as an extracurricular activity to learn to paint and draw, since then I have never stopped to have a very direct relationship with arts, It relaxes me and makes me feel good.

Where did you get inspiration?

I find my inspiration in nature. There is nothing more simple and amazing than the natural light, the color of the trees, the changing seasons, the shapes of the water, the texture of the leaves… It’s amazing how in nature all the elements combine to function in harmony, as illustration, typography and colors do it in a good design.

Who are your favorite photographers?

I love very different styles: Sophie Calle, Richard Avedon, Diane Arbus, William Klein, Dorothea Lange, Chema Madoz or Joan Fontcuberta.

In the modern time all is digital, and you are full analogic, so what you think about digital technology? It destroying the anagogic world or creating nostalgia and bring him back?

I love digital too and I use digital photography for my graphic design work, for me are two different tools, I love the old texture from analog photography and the non immediate process, some kind of imperfection and warmth that bring to the images.

Which are your instruments for work?

I have some digital and analog cameras.

What kind of camera do you use when you shoot?

As digital cameras I have a Canon and a Sony and as an analog an old Nikon and a Polaroid I bought in a street market.

How is your relationship with the camera?

They are more than a tool for me, I have a lot of affection for them. 

Talks us about your two project “Getting Lost” and “Roads”.

Getting Lost represents the feeling we are constantly locked in by our own day to day routine, monotony. We just need to get lost sometimes, to escape to find ourselves, to go back to where we come from, Nature. This project is the result of a beautiful rainy weekend in a little wooden house in the middle of the forest. All the pictures were taken in Fontcoberta (Catalonia, Spain).

Roads is a Photography project carried out mostly from inside a a car, on the way from Praia do Gincho (Cascaes) to Sintra, Portugal. The lights and objects blend into the rain and turn into spots suggesting the way. These pictures represent the metaphor of taking a decision. Sometimes when we decide we feel confused, we have trouble seeing beyond clearly, but despite the difficulties the fog becomes diluted and we gradually manage to reach our destination.

How were they born?

Spontaneously, while traveling.

How did you choose the location?

In both projects did not plan the location, I portrayed the trip I was doing.

Which camera do you use?

An old analog Nikon.

Both project have rain and need of freedom, peace and wilderness, why this choice? Which message do you prefer to send with these works?

I love capturing natural phenomena, landscapes, places where the sky blends with the land, they are a particular place but it could be anywhere, they represent the opposite feelings that we sometimes have.

You’re also a great graphic designer, an art made of a lot of other arts, typography, photography, drawing etc.. Which your favorite and why?

I love arts in general, I work as a graphic designer and what I love the most and what distinguishes my work is that I try to work out of the computer, mixing different arts to always give an special and organic touch to my work.

Do you have some project in progress?

Next month I’m going to Bordeaux I can’t wait to take pictures in the snow.

Where people can find you and your works?

www.carlacascales.com and on www.commeuneimage.es

Do you want to say something that I don’t ask you?

Do what you love and love what you do.

What would you like to ask our next Interviewee?

How do you get inspired for your projects?

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