Oscar J. Campos
Photographer
I am a descendant of a generation of middle-class artists. This included musicians, painters, sculptors, and designers. Artists that died swearing that their children and grandchildren, would have a better future embracing a formal career in law, sciences or business.
For this reason, they focused their efforts in providing the necessary means so that their beliefs become a reality.
However, inside me, the artistic seed kept growing trying to express all those sensations that somehow are produced by the simple fact of living.
The need to express move my soul. But I feel trapped in a body incapable of creating music. With a lack of rhythm to dance, incapable to molding the clay, and graceless to write a poem, allowing me to show, what the heart wants to say.
But not long ago, I discovered that photography could be this release valve which I have been looking for, all these years.
With photography, I can capture the passing moment, and with the proper use of the light, I am able to reproduce for others, the sensations that emerge from me.
I understand that we are all a product of our own experiences. For this reason, I am not expecting the public to interpret my work in the same way that I do.
Somehow, I have the intention to stop the viewer in the moment, captured by my camera, giving them the opportunity to explore their own feelings and their reaction when faced with something beautiful, horrible, curious, or fantastic.
Ansel Adams, Cartier-Bresson, D. Lange, and many other masters of the art of capturing and giving meaning to light, have been my models to follow. Knowing their work, and practicing their techniques, have provided me, the tools I needed to finally start self-expressing ideas. But it will be unfair if I proclaim them as my sole source of inspiration. There are many other wonderful human beings that have been playing an important role, boosting my creativity… Joaquin Sabines with his poems, Alejandro Filio with his songs, Marcel Marceau with his silent expression, Frida Kahlo with her agonizing brushstrokes or the simple philosophy of life of my grandmother.
Black and white, and color are used indiscriminately thru my work, as well as various types of photographs and photographic techniques because I feel that specialization could limit my horizons.
For me, Photography is a language, and the best way to make use of it depends upon the history to be shared. The capture of landscapes, portraits, objects, wildlife or the misery of the street is equally appealing to me as long as they unleash some sort of feelings or emotions.
As a photographer, I stop being a witness, to become a thief of moments in history.
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Email: oscar.j.photography@gmail.com
Text to: (619) 880-0616 or Call at: (619) 782-5541
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