Fernando Silva

I've always been fascinated by images and the visual arts.

When I make my photographs, I always try to leave something to chance, unlike in this discipline where the photographer has to master the technique and control many parameters. I make my images from emotion, and there's an irrational ingredient, I try to escape the realism that characterizes reportage photography, to express emotion through color and creative fugue.

Having traveled a lot, I attach great importance to nature and people, but above all to the spiritual character that lives in every living being.

Love, nature, children, animals - these are all subjects I'm very fond of.

Originally from Argentina with a degree in Communication Sciences, he acquired a rich professional experience in the audiovisual sector through his collaboration on projects involving several TV programs, and some documentary and report filming in Peru, Chili, Bolivia and Argentina. Some references which can be cited are; Amnesty International and Cusco’s National Institute of Culture. He travelled throughout Latin America for many years before settling in France.

A foreigner here, foreigner there.

Today, 20 years ago, I moved to France for good. Before that, I had been going and seeing all over South America for about 10 years. First in Peru for a year, during which I was lucky enough to work as a photographer for an anthropologist with whom I went on several scientific expeditions. It was a privilege to discover so many secrets of those ancient cultures. I then spent two years in Ecuador, travelling between mountains, coasts, and jungle, before venturing to Colombia. In the land of coffee, I spent a few months in Cali, but I also explored dangerous areas such as Putumayo, in the south-west of the country, on the border with Ecuador and Peru. I have accumulated various experiences in the audiovisual field, working for several TV...