Iguales pero diferentes

Juan Carlos Marugan My first contact with photography was during my childhood in Chile, the country where I was born and lived until I was 10 years old. My parents took photos to send to their family in Spain. In my youth, at the end of the 70s and while I was studying Image at the Faculty of Information Sciences in Madrid, I took my first black and white photos and began learning the techniques of developing and printing. At that time I had a couple of exhibitions and published a series of hand-colored black and white photos in the magazine “Arte Fotográfico”. A few years later, I completely abandoned photography to devote myself fully to moving images and new technologies. Video, computer graphics, 3D, and post-production have accompanied me throughout my professional life in the audiovisual world. Still life is a photographic genre that nowadays occupies little space in the photographic spectrum if compared to street photography, landscape or portraiture. But it has always been there since the beginning of photography. I claim still life. I have always been drawn to those everyday objects that we see every day at home and that almost never deserve a photo. Simple objects, a glass forgotten on the table after eating, a vase with flowers, a bottle, a cup, fruit, and in general everything that catches my attention and I consider that it can be an interesting photo. Nothing prepared, they are simply there, although many have the same space in common, a glass table in the living room at home. The result was a series of photos that I started a few years ago that I called casual still lifes.