TALES OF MADEIRA
This series shows a colourful street photo-narrative made of individual curious finds in urban and rural settings taken in Madeira, in 2019. It belongs to an ongoing project entitled “Tales” that presents places through the photographic fetishes of the author: the plastic people he finds in the shop windows, religious icons, street portraits, and food. These are the same motifs that can be found in his travel and street series. Seigar always uses reflections and saturated colours to emphasize the aesthetics of his obsession with pop culture. Tales of Madeira exudes tradition and local culture from a camp spy’s view.
Biography:
Seigar is a passionate travel, street, social documentary, and conceptual photographer based in Tenerife. He feels obsessed with pop culture which shows in his series. He is a fetishist for reflections, saturated colors, curious finds, and religious icons.
He also flirts with journalism and video. His main inspiration is traveling. His aim as an artist is to tell tales with his camera, creating a continuous storyline from his trips. His most ambitious projects so far are his Plastic People, a study on anthropology and sociology that focuses on the humanization of the mannequins he finds in the shop windows all over the world, and his Tales of a City, an ongoing urban photo-narrative project taken in London.
He is a philologist and also works as a secondary school teacher. He is a self-taught visual artist, though he has done a two years course in advanced photography and one in cinema and television. He has participated in several exhibitions and his works have been featured in many publications. He has collaborated with different media such as VICE and WAG1. He writes for Dodho and The Cultural about photography and for Memoir Mixtapes about music. Lately, he has experimented with video forms. His last interest is documenting identity. Recently, he received the Rafael Ramos García International Photography Award.
Webpage: seigar.wordpress.com
Social Networks:
Facebook/Instagram: @jseigar
Galleries: flickr.com/photos/theblueheartbeat/albums
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