Claudia Calle wins honorable mention • Int. Photography Awards 2009

On August 18 the finalists and winners of the prestigious International Photography Awards were announced and the city of Miami could not be prouder of its 2009 representative, Colombian photographer and mix media artist Claudia Calle, who won Honorable Mention with her  series “Living in Silence” and “Between Frontier: the longneck story”.  Claudia’s pieces were chosen among over 20,000 photography’s sent from all over the world.

Claudia Calle is an eclectic artist who designs and photographs by instinct capturing unusual moments and giving us genial pieces of art reflect of her heightened and particular life philosophy.  She has a passion for traveling and capturing the lifestyle and culture of the places she visits and her work is the result of the fusion between spontaneity and a conscientious study of the social and  cultural phenomenon that she perceives at her surroundings.

In her own words she explains “Through the creative process something wonderful happens.  My mind, eyes, hands and spirit aligns and without premeditation, in a magical second, I capture the essence of the people and things that are in front of me. The final result is always perfect because it  comes from a spontaneous act. I enjoy experimenting with photography, painting and mixing elements over different and non – conventional materials.  In my work I use symbols as part of the human occultism with the purpose of spreading and protecting the truth.”Claudia