"Quintana, a Spanish graphic designer, was walking from his studio to a work meeting in Poblenou, a district of Barcelona, when he spotted it. I take photos based on visual impulses; anything that catches my eye, he says. The colour match of the bear's fur and wall paint anchors a childish stereotype in a place where it doesn't really belong."
"Without really understanding why, I started compulsively taking photos, he says, adding that he found the act of paying attention to reality, of fixing his gaze on moments of discovery, therapeutic. It allowed me to tolerate a reality that, without being reinterpreted through an aesthetic lens, was very hard for me to cope with. Capturing everything that mixed the strange with the beautiful helped me recover."
Inigo Jerez Quintana encountered an abandoned stuffed bear in Poblenou, Barcelona, noting a striking colour match between the bear's fur and the wall paint. The visual pairing anchored a childish stereotype within an incongruent urban environment, producing a sensation that was simultaneously comfortable and uncomfortable. Quintana photographs based on visual impulses, capturing moments that mix the strange with the beautiful. During a depressive period he began compulsively taking photographs, finding that focused attention and aesthetic framing rendered reality more tolerable. Photographic discovery acted as a therapeutic practice that helped him recover and preserved memory, as illustrated by a found stuffed leopard kept by his son.
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