Laura Juliana Ballen

Author

Scholarship

Scholarship TAI Photo VII

Position

Finalist

Degree

Master in Artistic and Documentary Photography

Description

Colombia

Born in Bogota, Colombia. She is about to graduate in Visual Arts at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá. She got her start in the photography business less than two years ago when she came across a rock music cultural group. Faced with this cultural scene, which she has been "a little ignored and forgotten" in Colombia, as she admits, the artist realized how photography manages to overcome the forgetfulness of an instant or a reality. She verified how photography managed to connect her with art, documentation, history, music, people and with herself. The objective of his work is to leave a real mark on the culture of his country, with the ability to see what has been "so invisible and ignored", documentation as the power to record forever in the blink of a shutter and be of help so as not to be erased from history.