Ofe Barros

One the things I clearly remember since I was 12 was the rage to be able to paint a portrait of some friends of mine. Once I finally managed to do so and the age of 14, I took up painting as a base to comprehend the world around me. That base has always been there. Later on, when I moved from the North of Spain to study in Madrid, I discovered and took up photography as another element that, in spite of the fact that did not meet my expectations when it came to colours and image at that time, just opened another world to me as well as further paths and possibilities from a very different analogic and new perspective. In all I find that this path has been part of my career since then.
Photographs that look like paintings reminds us that the line that separates both disciplines , painting and photography, is not that far: Photographs need light to some sort of paint on your camera roll or card for every shot taken, and in fact that is the way I feel it and see it.