Adriana Lopez Sanfeliu: Capturing Life On The Block
By Scott Belsky
103rd Street Between Lexington and Park avenues, Manhattan, New York.
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Since April of 2002, Adriana has been capturing the lives of young Puerto Rican women and their families in Spanish Harlem, NYC. "There is a hardness that characterizes these streets," Adriana explains, "and innocence dies young." She has spent the past four years developing the unique and powerful exhibition "Life on the Block."
Adriana is a well-known freelance photographer in New York City with a roster of clients that includes The New York Times, Newsweek, and Glamour. She earned degrees in Art History and Graphic Design in Barcelona before coming to NYC in the summer of 2001 to study Photography. During a documentary film class, Adriana came across the subject of life in Spanish Harlem and discovered a topic that captured her "heart, passion, eye, and mind."
Conceiving a new project is as important as continually building upon it. To get "Life on the Block" off the ground, Adriana just kept pushing it further. As she describes it, "After accomplishing a certain chapter (I would) take it to a higher level, from having an open outdoor projection to a formal gallery show. Always searching for my very personal vision and staying true to myself."
When it comes to managing time and staying organized, Adriana struggled to balance productivity with the project's demands for patience and presence. "It is very hard to measure time when you work alone in a long-term project documenting people's lives that obviously you can't control. You have to commit yourself fully and be available. There are many other activities involved in this kind of work besides photographing; processing film, editing, retouching, promoting, writing... In order to keep yourself organized and efficient you have to...create deadlines for yourself. You need a certain auto-discipline."
For over four years, Adriana has put her heart and sole in "Life on the Block." As she explains it, "Photography is a way of raising questions to engage dialogue. Documentary Photographic projects are in-depth portraits of our times, a testimony to our society and history. Bearing witness to people's daily life helps to inform and educate, bringing awareness that stretches our collective mental boundaries, which in turn encourages and enables social change, growth and wholeness." Adriana's work has now been widely recognized in the media as a transformational photographic experience.
Adriana is a well-known freelance photographer in New York City with a roster of clients that includes The New York Times, Newsweek, and Glamour. She earned degrees in Art History and Graphic Design in Barcelona before coming to NYC in the summer of 2001 to study Photography. During a documentary film class, Adriana came across the subject of life in Spanish Harlem and discovered a topic that captured her "heart, passion, eye, and mind."
Conceiving a new project is as important as continually building upon it. To get "Life on the Block" off the ground, Adriana just kept pushing it further. As she describes it, "After accomplishing a certain chapter (I would) take it to a higher level, from having an open outdoor projection to a formal gallery show. Always searching for my very personal vision and staying true to myself."
When it comes to managing time and staying organized, Adriana struggled to balance productivity with the project's demands for patience and presence. "It is very hard to measure time when you work alone in a long-term project documenting people's lives that obviously you can't control. You have to commit yourself fully and be available. There are many other activities involved in this kind of work besides photographing; processing film, editing, retouching, promoting, writing... In order to keep yourself organized and efficient you have to...create deadlines for yourself. You need a certain auto-discipline."
For over four years, Adriana has put her heart and sole in "Life on the Block." As she explains it, "Photography is a way of raising questions to engage dialogue. Documentary Photographic projects are in-depth portraits of our times, a testimony to our society and history. Bearing witness to people's daily life helps to inform and educate, bringing awareness that stretches our collective mental boundaries, which in turn encourages and enables social change, growth and wholeness." Adriana's work has now been widely recognized in the media as a transformational photographic experience.
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