In my most recent work, Elsewhere, I explore themes such as nature as a transcendental space, displacement and the landscape as a coping strategy. Using a modified digital camera for infrared photography, I aim to explore the more mysterious and surreal elements of the landscape, using a poetic language where time seems to be suspended. Challenging the restless feeling of not belonging, otherness, and cultural constraints, the landscape has offered me a cathartic relief, shaping a renewed sense of connectedness with nature. Making both real and imaginary landscapes, I dissolve space and time, creating an interruption, an absence, giving a feeling of being elsewhere. Reality is suspended, reminding us we are just a small part of nature, united with it. There is an invitation seeking us to ponder and reflect, to create a moment of emptiness, a spark of consciousness. In all the nuances of simplicity, nature reveals the divine, helping us to understand the world through an act of solitude. Photography becomes an instrument through which I can reveal not only the nature that encloses me, but the nature that reflects the landscape within. A silence arises, reproducing a calm and precious universe, suspended in time, next to the world itself—a transcendental space evoking an allegory of a place called home.

About

Francisco Gonzalez Camacho (b. 1990) is a Spanish photographer based in Helsinki. He is currently studying for his master's degree in photography at Aalto University. His practice can be denominated as contemporary social documentary photography, which focuses on small stories and themes such as family, immigration and the landscape. His work has been exhibited in Spain and UK, with a current upcoming group exhibition in Finland at The Finnish Museum of Photography. "Elsewhere" most recent Gonzalez's work has been recently published on Handbali Magazine and awarded by Booooooom, part of a Photobook Award. He is currently working on the making of a handmade photobook with the future aim of publishing.