TITLE: Wild Violets . Street Portraits

Along the mountain road
Somehow it tugs to my heart
A wild violet

Basho

There is a murmur of images in the cities
There are people. Stories walking down the streets
You can see them in faces, in gestures
Those stories are being written again and again. They come across one another without even suspecting that. They are made. They are lost.
My gaze even invents them. My gaze. The chaotic lights, the sounds in the city
I want my photos to tell those stories. To name them. I want my images to be an invitation
That is when I stop with my camera. I ask for permission to take a portrait. Some people do not want, but in most cases, contrary to what many might think, many men and women accept gladly. That is where we start a dialogue. Perhaps a short one, or not so short, the portraited person, my camera and me. Or me in my camera. Or I do not know.
A dialogue starts in which my camera is a character we try to forget about.
I am interested in that dialogue to be part of the image. To be it skeleton
Sometimes it happens that people want to see their portrait, they ask me to send them it. We keep in contact. Or sometimes we never see each other again. I know their image. That is all I want to know at the very moment I take them the photo. And also, that is why I do not give a title to my individual images. I just have that “here and now” that never exists at all. Like the world. Like cities that change every time somebody sees them. And some other person will see them, and reinvent them. And forget them

AUTHOR: Judith Rodriguez (Argentina)


I was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I studied Psychology at Buenos Aires University. I atended photography workshops with Juan Travnik, Adriana Lestido, Alberto Goldenstein, Alberto García Alix, Antoine D’Agata, and online sessions with Marc Prüst from Lensculture

Solo Exhibitions

2017

* (Upcoming) Hola Latina Gallery. Knoxville. Tennessee. USA. October 2017

2016

* Pil Ours. International Festival of Women Photographers. La Chaize Chiraud. France



2014

* Wild Violets. Portraits. Clayton Center for the Arts. Maryville. Tennessee. USA

* Street Portraits. Bar Montserrat. Ciudad de Buenos Aires. Argentina



2013

* Street Portraits. Foto Club Buenos Aires. CABA. Argentina




Group Exhibitions (selected)

2017

* (Upcoming) Pollux Awards 2016. The Framers Gallery. London. September 2017

* Eyes on Main Street Festival Wilson North Carolina USA

2016

* Eyes on Main Street Wilson USA

* Nano Festival FOLA, Buenos Aires, Argentina

* Begira Photo. Arbolada. Durango. España

* Les Alizes. Saint Gilles Croix de Vie. Francia. Festival Internacional de Mujeres Fotógrafas

* Women are beautiful. Tribute to Garry Winograd Fola Nano Festival Buenos Aires Argentina



2015

* Valparaíso. Centro Cultural de España. Santiago de Chile. Chile. Curaduría de Alberto García Alix

* Street Portraits. ExpoSalta. Ciudad de Salta. Argentina

* No Es Igual No Da Igual Derechos Adquiridos en los Años de Democracia. Espacio Caloi CABA, Argentina


2014
* FIFV Exhibit curated by Adriana Lestido. Valparaíso Chile

* About mothers and daughters. Centro Cultural del Sur. CABA. Argentina

* Re-trato Contra la Trata. Legislatura Porteña. CABA. Argentina


* Reflejos. Buenos Aires y Mendoza. Mendoza. Argentina

* Transparescencia. Centro Cultural Recoleta. Buenos Aires. Argentina

* No Es Igual, No Da igual. “Los Trabajos de las Mujeres y de las Personas Trans, Migrantes”. Programa de Género. Ministerio Público de la Defensa


2013


* No Es Igual, No Da Igual. Iguales de Derecho, Desiguales de Hecho. Casa Nacional del Bicentenario. CABA. Argentina


Some Awards




• Px3 Paris Prix de la Photography 2016. Honorable Mention
• Pollux Awards 2016 Shortlisted
• Margaret Cameron Awards 2017 First Prize Portrait Category

• 5th Edition of the Jacob Riis Editorial and Documentary Award. Shortlisted

• 2nd Charles Dodgson Black and White Award. Finalist . Honorable Mention in Portrait
• Sony World Photography Awards 2016 Commanded Photographer

* Rated TOP 100 at the Lens Culture Street Photography Awards 2016


* Third Prize. Sunrise in Buenos Aires. HRCC. CABA. Argentina

* Third Prize No es Igual, No Da Igual. Iguales de Derecho, Desiguales de Hecho. Casa Nacional del Bicentenario. CABA. Argentina


* Honorable Mention. Transparescencia. Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. Argentina

* Honorable Mention No es Igual, No Da Igual. “Los Trabajos de las Mujeres y de las Personas trans, Migrantes”. Programa de Género. Ministerio Público de la Defensa

* Honorable Mention. Premio Anual a la Producción Fotográfica. Legislatura de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. Argentina

* Second Prize Reconocernos. Defensoría del Pueblo. Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. Argentina

* First Prize Crac Magazine. CABA. Argentina


* Special Award. Premio Anual a la Producción Fotográfica Legislatura de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos