juan sebastián echeverri

Your name
Juan Sebastián Echeverri.
Place of birth
Medellín, Colombia.
Place where you live now
New York.
3 words to describe you
Curious, truthful, resilient.
Why do you take pictures?
Because photography is never boring.
Where do you get your inspiration?
Reading and researching about the things that interest me.
Who are your influences?
Irving Penn, William Eggleston, Miles Aldridge, Eugenio Recuenco.
What determines the subject matter you choose?
Ideas and a clear point of view determine the subject matter, the genre and the technique.
What impact would you like your art to have?
I would like my art to start conversations about the contradictions of society and humans.
What artwork do you never get bored with?
Irving Penn's still lifes.
Is there anything you want to add?
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Paper Guns Mixed Media
(Project statement)

Paper Guns is an exploration of the cultural context of America as a society obsessed with guns. In a divided nation the right to love firearms or to hate them, goes beyond the latest headlines and the obvious motives and requires a deeper conversation to update regulations that were created in a nascent America.

juan sebastián echeverri
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