I observe human gestures and their interaction with the places that they inhabit. I capture spaces filled with the trace and emotion of human presence. The images combine, in certain way, the appropriation of places and apprehended realities that become stories about rooms and matter enclosing emotional and cultural record. The familiarity arouses through the nostalgic and the content of loneliness in the forgotten.

The walls and the objects confine the vestige and come alive interacting within the absence of witnesses, becoming the essence of the site they occupy. My lens serves as a medium to feel the sensibility of fields where life has been lived. The photographs are evidence of the texture of the space and the experience of being somewhere where objects have been testimony of time and beholders of memories.

COMMERCIAL ENQUIRIES

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SELECTED SHOWS

2019 Mujeres latinoamericanas y la fotografía, Centro Cultural Estación Mapocho, Santiago, Chile
2018 Kuala Lumpur Photo Awards, Whitebox Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
2018 Universidad Autónoma de Nayarit, Foto Féminas Collective, Nayarit, Mexico.
2018 Group show "Mujeres latinoamericanas y la fotografía", Galería ICPNA San Miguel, Lima, Perú.
2017 Bronx Documentary Center, photo slideshow + talk, Foto-Feminas, New York, USA.
2017 Foto-Féminas projection at Alimentación General, BA, Argentina.
2016 Mérida Foto Festival with Foto-Féminas Collective, Mérida, Vzla.
2016 Foto-Féminas collective, Pingyao International Photography Festival, China.
2016 The Fence 2016, Brooklyn, Boston, Atlanta, Santa Fe, Houston. USA.
2016 Foto-Féminas collective, Museo Pumapungo,Cuenca, Ecuador.
2015 MIFA Photo Awards 2015
2015 Renaissance Photography Prize exhibition, Getty Images Gallery, London, UK.
2015 The Exposure Photography Award Digital Display at The Louvre, Paris.
2014 NYPH Group show at Photoville, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Group Show Spring Equinox Salon Show, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
2013 Group Show 10th Anniversary Grand Salon Show, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
2013 Group Show Curate NYC, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY.
2013 Group Show Annual Photography Show, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
2013 Group Show MFA National Competition, First Street Gallery, New York, NY.
2013 Group Show Pratt Graduate Fine Arts 2013, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY.
2013 Solo Show “Buena Vista 504”, Steuben South Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
2012 "Crisis", D9 collective, Dekalb Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
2011 Solo Show “Entre Águas de Portugal”, Portuguese Center, Caracas, Venezuela.
2010 Solo Show “Peças da Madeira", Portuguese Center, Caracas, VenezuelPRESS

Elle Decor España, Arte, diseño y lujo en un piso piloto (Jul 17, 2019).
Dezeen.com, Standard Arts adorns apartment in David Chipperfield’s the Bryant tower in Manhattan (June 26, 2019).
Diario el Mercurio, Muestra reúne a fotógrafas del continente y su mirada femenina (Feb 26,2019)
Las Ultimas Noticias, Fotógrafas latinas se apropian de la Estación Mapocho (Jan 5, 2019).
The New York Times, Creating a Community of Latin American Women Photographers, (December 20, 2018).
The Lily News, How one woman is putting the spotlight on her Latin American photo peers (Jan 26, 2018).
Washingtonpost.com, How one woman is putting the spotlight on her Latin American photo peers (Jan 12, 2018).
remezcla.com This Platform Highlights Women Shattering Stereotypes About Latin America Through Photography, (October 10, 2017).
British Journal of Photography, Portrait of Humanity: Veronica Sanchis Bencomo, founder of Foto Feminas, on the power of community (September 6, 2018).
Foto-Féminas, May 2016.
Renaissance Photography Prize 2015, exhibition Catalogue.
Huffingtonpost.com, photograph for the article Performance Artist Tamar Ettun on Sculpting with People (Oct31,2015)
The Pace Press, Volume 67, Issue 3, page 5 (NY Oct 22,2015)
Alula in Blue, Exhibition Catalogue, Fridman Gallery (Nov, 2015)
Mutualart.com, photographs for the article In Stillness and Urgency: an interview with Tamar Ettun (Oct 28, 2015)
Hyperallergic.com, photographs for the article Objects with an Absurd Urge to Move (Oct 22,2015)
Provincetown Magazine, Vol. 38 Issue 21, (Sept 10-16, 2015)
El Anzuelo en la Memoria, El Nacional newspaper, Venezuela (March 29th, 2015)
El Anzuelo en la Memoria, El Nacional newspaper, Venezuela (February 22nd, 2015)
Fotografía Magazine (Feb 2015)
Lens Scratch, Who or what I love online exhibition (Feb 14th 2015)
Lost Love online exhibition, SMBH Magazine (Feb 2015)
Artecho NY, techo.org (Oct 10th 2014)
Multipolarity Exhibition Catalogue, Fridman Gallery (New York 2014)
In Place Exhibition Catalogue, Fridman Gallery (New York 2014)
Saatchi Gallery Motion Photography Price Shortlist (2014)
Dxi magazine (Spain, Sep-Dec 2012)
Correio de Venezuela (Jun 2011)
Instituto Portugues de Cultura (Jun 30, 2011)
30 Días magazine, Special edition F/115 (Venezuela, 2011)
Mundo Luso magazine, No.14 (Venezuela, 2011)
30 Días magazine, Special edition F/112 (Venezuela, 2010)
Looc Madrid magazine, No.79 (Spain, November 2009)
Dxi Pocket Madrid magazine (Spain, May-Sep 2009)
Esquire Spain (February 2009).AWARDS and RECOGNITION

2018 DNA Gallery Artist Residency, Cape Cod, US.
2018 Kuala Lumpur Photo Awards finalist, Malaysia.
2016 Member of Foto-féminas.(Latin American women photographers collective).
2015 MIFA Photo Awards 2015, Honorable Mention in the Interiors Category.
2015 Ei Awards finalist.
2015 Finalist on the Renaissance Photography Prize.
2015 DNA Gallery Artist Residency.
2015 The Exposure Photography Award, honorable Mention The Interiors Collection.
2015 Member of The Venezuelan American Endowment for the Arts.
2013 Excellence in Academic Achievement and Graduate with Distinction, Pratt Institute.
2011-2013 Pratt Graduate Academic Scholarship.

EDUCATION

2013 Master in Fine Arts Photography, Pratt Institute, New York, USA.
2009 Master in Fashion and Advertising Photography, Escuela TAI, Madrid, Spain.
2009 Painting, El Estudio, Madrid, Spain
2008 Art and Design course at the University of the Arts London, London, UK.
2007 Honours Degree in Social Communication, Universidad Monteávila, Caracas, Vzla.
2006-2010 Photography, Roberto Mata Taller de Fotografía, Caracas, Venezuela.

2006-2011 Painting Taller Elías Serpa, Caracas, Venezuela.

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