Andres Ríos Fierro is a Bogotá-based photographer who focuses on family and friends, taking pictures primarily for his own future recollection. He intends the images to provide sweet memories in old age rather than disappear into forgotten digital camera rolls. The photographs are collected in Amor Eterno, published by Pomegranate Press, and form intimate vignettes of human connection. The images frequently pair two subjects—lovers, friends, kittens, or family—and convey fragility rooted in the photographer's own emotional vulnerability. He typically photographs people he is very close to, capturing moments of shared feeling, such as photographing his mother while both were crying.
Andres Ríos Fierro, the Bogotá-based photographer does what a lot of photographers like to do: take photos of their family and friends. But Andres says he takes these sort of pictures for himself, so, when he's old, he'll always have something sweet to look back on. It's a noble idea. For many who take photos now, they're almost always doomed to increasingly slide towards the back of a digital camera roll that they'll never look at again.
Andres' beautiful photographs of interpersonal relationships have now been collected in Amor Eterno, a new book published by Pomegranate Press, the pages of which come together to create intimate vignettes of human connection. Often presenting dual subjects - either lovers, friends, kittens or family - the photos have a sense of fragility because Andres is fragile behind the camera. "I usually photograph people I'm really close to, so it's easy for me to show myself that way around them," says Andres. "For example, there's a photo of my mom crying - when I took that shot, I was crying too. Usually, if someone's crying in front of the lens, it's because I'm crying behind it as well."
Collection
[
|
...
]