Philip Orellana

Author

Philip Orellana

Scholarship

Scholarship TAI Photo VII

Position

Finalist

Degree

Master in Artistic and Documentary Photography

Description

Chile

He was born in Concepción, in the south of Chile. In 2013 she traveled to Santiago to study design and quickly connected with photography. "Translate an imaginary from his brain and translate it into a fixed image" he became a recurring interest in his work, he confesses. That intention of wanting to portray “reality” became more complex and she began to value his point of view. 

He recognizes himself as queer and became obsessed with identities and with the idea of ​​"masculinity": a rigid social construct that limits and violates (him), but that (perhaps), he recognizes, can be reconfigured and reimagined through image and graphics . In 2019, she traveled to Berlin in search of new creative spaces and found new ways of dissecting and creating. In 2020 she moved to Madrid to try to professionalize his interests. 

In his work he aspires to redefine (or destroy) “the masculine” by portraying the diverse identities of his generation. He allows himself to challenge the established, to tell the stories of "others" (and often his own) through an honest dialogue with the images.