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Vela, Jorge Lépez

Mexican, b. 1963

Biography"The work I present here is part of three portfolios built over the last eight years, whose titles are: Sierra Zapoteca, Sea city (Marurbe) and Pascual's routes. I developed each one in different times and spaces which become interlaced by my very particular way of conceiving photography.

What these portfolios share is the game I establish with reality. I call it a game because much of it depeds on chance and unforseen aspects of life. It is also a game in the sense that I am the recipient of a reality that is foreign to me, so I let it surprise me, show me and give me the guidelines so that I can find the images.

Each portfolio is an essay, moments of arrest from the world, which I work on separately in order to concentrate on each idea. The motives have been diverse: Sierra Zapoteca tells something about a mountain range region in Oaxaca and its lifestyle, a place surrounded by cultural and natural richness. Seacity (Marurbe) is the search, in the middle of gray Mexico City, for salt water, and its promise of pleasure and gluttony. Pascual's routes is a gaze born in a truck's mirror, that takes you running around the dry northern area of the city led through by the ups and downs of a delivery truck with its yearned for and refreshing soda pop." --Jorge Lépez Vela, Mexico