Naomi Soto
Black. Asturias, a future in ruins
It is said in traditional songs and poems that Asturias is "green and black" - due to its exuberant nature and coal. Now most of the coalmines are closed and their buildings remain silent, quiet like skeletons. For the last two decades this region in North Spain has been immersed in an unsuccessful process of reindustrialisation which has added nothing but another colour to the canvas; a faded grey that gets everywhere. Trapped between a vanishing lifestyle at which they cannot look back and an uncertain future they cannot envisage, people live in a limbo where nothing seems to change; their paths going astray before their eyes as if a dense fog covered everything. A fog that sometimes seems grey too.
Janica Candolin • Ella Dickinson • Denise Felkin • Carrie Hitchcock • Corinna Kern • Adriana Monsalve • Daniel Norwood • Monica Pedraja • Luca Piffaretti • Caterina Ragg • Mubeen Siddiqui • Naomi Soto • Giorgia Tobiolo • Elizabeth Waight • Nadja Wohlleben •
University of Brighton
MA Photography
Central Saint Martins
MA Photography
Central Saint Martins
MA Fine Art
London College of Communication
MA Photography
London College of Communication
MA Photojournalism & Documentary Photography
University of Wales, Newport
MA/MFA Documentary Photography
University of Sunderland
MA Photography
University of Ulster
MFA Photography