TITLE: Days of Winter

Days of Winter is a journey along a body that aims to examine skin through the nudity of certain shapes. I have conceived that journey as a search from the whole to the part, from a perspective of the entire body to a glance of fragments of such a body, from representation to abstraction. A soul is also there. There is a body, a hand, some lips: they suggest the presence of a mind, an enigma of a person who searches for truth trough her body.

The scope of Days of Winter is, consequently, twofold: a story and its narrative, and a visual journey. As a story, Days of Winter aims to place the viewer before a drama: A woman is shown, revealed only in part as if her body will deliver a monologue. A self-exploration, a journey again, but this time from the skin to the inside. There is also a sense of loss: The woman is not young. She was young once but is now reaching maturity.

As a visual journey, Days of Winter aims to present the body from a sculpture perspective, away from the conventional approach of idealising the female body. The nude here is abstracted to lines and shapes, dissected and rearranged. The clean, honest, direct representation of skin and parts of a body have been the clues. This approach has had its counterpart in my darkroom: There, the prints are revealed as a physical object, worked by my hands and transformed by the action of chemicals. I have also experimented with overexposing the film and increasing development times and by using hard papers.”

AUTHOR: Roberto A. Cabrera (Spain)

ROBERTO A. CABRERA (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, 1971)

Self-taught amateur photographer, interested in Analog Black & White Photography.

Fine Art Photography Awards 2017. Nominee.
Monochrome Photography Awards 2021. Honourable Mention in Amateur Nude Category.

Four of his portfolios are featured on the Dodho Magazine website. International Lens Magazine, from Israel, chooses his portfolio “Days of Winter” for number 78 issue (March 2021), devoted to Film Photography.

One-man exhibition at the Raw Streetphoto Gallery (Rotterdam, 2019). Exhibition, with photographer Dominic Dähncke, at the Sala O’Daly Gallery (Santa Cruz de La Palma, Spain, 2018). First one-man exhibition at Kunstraum La Palma (Tazacorte, Spain, 2018)

Licenciado (5 years degree) in Philosophy. Writer. Based in La Palma, Canary Islands.