TITLE: The Trapped Light

The Trapped Light is a personal, minimalist and suggestive vision of the intrinsic relationship between architecture, photography and natural light, highlighting the relevance of the latter as a fundamental element for creation.

AUTHOR: Sergio Ferreira Ruiz (Spain)

From my beginnings I was a self-taught photographer. When I was 16 I began to feel a special attraction for the image world. The cinema, the billboards, the magazines and the TV called my attention powerfully.
At the age of 22 I became a member of the Cartagena Photographic Association. This fact was crucial in the choice of this language as a form of artistic expression, because it helped me grow as a person and as a photographer. They were several years of intense photographic activity and creativity with other colleagues and friends. However, as time passed by the situation changed. The industrial crisis that affected our region led us to give up the activity of the Photographic Association due to lack of public support. This new scene changed my personal and work future and I stopped my photographic activity for more than 12 years.

I come back with an individual exhibition entitled “In the front line”. Little by little I recover the illusion for the creation of new projects. So, in order to expand my training I begin to attend different seminars and workshops by renowned photographers such as Luis Castelo, Chema Madoz, Julio Álvarez Yagüe, Manuel Sonseca, Miguel Trillo, Manolo Laguillo, or Joan Fontcuberta, among others. In 2015 I finish my studies in Visual Arts, Photography and Personal Project at the Miguel Hernández University in Elche (Alicante). My passion for this discipline has prevented me from dedicating my work exclusively to a single genre. That is why I like moving among the documentary, the social reporting and the portrait.

I have received several awards, honorable mentions and selections both nationally and internationally, I have taken part in individual and collective exhibitions and some of my works have been published in books, catalogues, magazines and press, my latest awards have been Honorable Mention in the 2018 Chromatic Int. Color Photo Contest Awards, Architecture Category // Finalist in the 2019 SONY World Photography Awards, Motion Category, London // Double-page publication in the “Big Pic” section of the National Geographic Traveller Magazine July/August 2019, United Kingdom // 1st Prize in the 2019 “PX3” Prix de la Photographie Paris, Press/Sport Category, Paris // Three Honorable Mentions in the 2019 “IPA” Int. Photography Awards, Fine Art, People and Sport category, USA // Two photos finalist URBAN 2019 Photo Awards, Street Category, Trieste (Italy) // First place and Gold Medal PSPA Paris Street Photo Awards Street Performances & Sport Category, Paris 2019 // First place and Gold Medal Chromatic Awards Int. Color Photography Contest 2019, Sport Category and Honorable Mention Culture Category // Second Prize and Silver Medal Sport Category and Third Prize and Bronze Medal Environment Category, "TIFA" Tokyo International Foto Awards 2019 // Honorable Mention “CHROMANTIC / A Tribute to Alex Webb” an Exhibit Around project, Trieste 2020 (Italy) // Two Silver Medals "PX3" Prix de la Photographie Paris Environment and Sport Category, Paris 2020 // First Place Sport Category, Honorable Mention Environment Category and Honorable Mention People Category "IPA" 2020