Gerda Willer
Bio
Chilean photographer and visual artist. Besides photography, she also has studies in drawing, painting, and sculpture in the Catholic University of Chile. She developed her knowledge while also participating in showcases, workshops, and expositions. Since around 2003 until today she has dedicated herself to photography, especially analog photography which she develops herself in her own dark room. That way, in her own study, she experiments and creates different series and projects regarding different themes, which result in limited edition photobooks, hand-made collages and art-installations. In the last 3 years she has been exploring the world of hand-made photobooks.
Statement
My photographs are intuitive, the images come spontaneously to me, without a preconceived idea. I’ve been working on many different themes, but the one I’ve never left behind in the street. For me it has a special charm, changing, surprising and always in motion.
These artworks are the product of letting my imagination fly free, creating an irreal moment with the images I capture on the street, where everything happens so fast and many times the scenes don’t turn out in the exact way one expected. That’s when cutting and pasting became a magical game that allows me to tell a completely different story.
All pictures are analog film photographs (always black and white), which are developed and enlarged by me in my photo lab.
