05.5 Fotografias por Ramon Saturnino.
Jet Lag Taxi.
Guadalajara, México
2024
Part of “Bulgaria; Mexicali.” photographic series portraying the landscape of the Altar Desert, on the border between San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora (MX) and San Luis, Arizona (USA). This series stems from a methodological exercise in which, through a three-year archive of photographs, that capture elements of the landscape defined by its lack of elements. Within this process, the exercise revolves around the research and understanding of the means used to portray (black and white film, overexposure, and shooting photos at 2 PM) and an objectification of the elements photographed (which represent the iconographies i grew up with). The approach utilizes personal proximity as a tool to photograph and select images, with the aim of creating an image entirely dissociated from any defined context, focused on decontextualized iconographies. In this way, the body of work exists as an aesthetic reaffirmation of the elements portrayed.