Marta Benavides
Eclipse
Expectations of remembrance are embedded in photography from the very moment at which the film is loaded into the camera. Negatives are sometimes kept in family archives as treasures capable of transporting us back in time. Bits of film that register the beginning of the process of image capture are inadvertently stored right next to the successful photographs that configure the imagery of the family. Through the process of scrutinising these scraps and using technology to transform them into images, I have enabled these film leaders to transcend their garbage status and symbolise the fragility of memory. They have become a portal into the past, honouring the memory that the limitations of the apparatus never allowed to fully exist.
Gabriel Andreu • Georgs Avetisjans • Marta Benavides • Richard Boll • Pixie Bowles • Martin Seeds • Lauren Shields •
University of Brighton
MA Photography
Leeds College of Art
MA Creative Practice
London College of Communication
MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography
Royal College of Art
MA Photography
University of South Wales
MA Documentary Photography