VISION #82 — Felipe Romero Beltrán
For this new episode, I had the great pleasure to meet Felipe Romero Beltrán, a Colombian documentary photographer born in Bogotá in 1992 and currently based in Paris. Felipe develops long-term projects, focusing on social issues and often triggered by a personal experience. Alongside his visual work, the artist completed a doctorate in photography at Madrid's Complutense University in 2023.
Migration is a central issue in his photography, a highly publicised phenomenon, often for the worse. In Beltrán's work, migration is approached from the point of view of the body and its relationship to law, and more specifically to legal language, which I find particularly interesting and eminently political. Whether between Morocco and Spain or at the border between Mexico and the United States, the body appears in Romero's images as a metaphor for a state of coercion and tension inherent in the experience of exile. I let you discover this highly personal and fascinating documentary approach, at the intersection of photography, both practical and theoretical, performance and collaboration.
Photo: Felipe Romero Beltrán, Dialect, 2020-2023
Each vision is unique, carrying meaning and the potential for change. The purpose of this format is to bring together many artists, each sharing their own vision and experience of photography.
Photos: Felipe Romero Beltrán, Recital, 2020
Photo: Felipe Romero Beltrán, Dialect, 2020-2023
« The camera is not just a tool of representation, it produces another kind of reality. »
– Felipe Romero Beltrán
Photos: Felipe Romero Beltrán, Dialect, 2020-2023
below: Bravo, 2021-2024
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Photos: Felipe Romero Beltrán, Dialect, 2020-2023