Elsa Leydier is a French photographer and visual artist based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Photographer

Alba Abiad is a half Spanish-half Syrian architect, graduated from ETSAB (Barcelona). She lived in India, Japan, China, Austria, Greece and Spain studying and working with renowned architects and artists such as Bijoy Jain, Kengo Kuma, Arata Isozaki, Riken Yamamoto, Ricardo Bofill. In a permanent state of movement, she works with natural materials that emerge from the ground and return back to the ground, like the human body.

Sergi Delgado, founder of Diatomic studio, is an Artist and Art Director based in Barcelona. He loves typography and lettering projects. A warm-blooded resident of Barcelona, sometimes a nomad and always a “somiatruites”. He takes inspiration from the mathematic algorithms found in nature, the Psychedelic, Surrealist, Oniric & Pop movements and Op Art’s greatest tricks. He loves working in the field of music and dedicating time to cultural projects. Typography often forms the foundation of much of his work. A keen risk-taker, and multidisciplinary designer that experiments daily by combining images, textures and motion graphics.

I am an observer. Through digital and analogue photography, still and moving images, I explore the potential ground that exists between fine art and documentary photography. Drawing inspiration from various conditions of the reality around me, from the great interest in the modern, dynamic art scene but also from my personal experiences, I believe in the power of images to convey the emotions, truths and challenges of modern reality. Having spent the majority of my life away from my motherland, I often return to the theme of homesickness and belonging in my artwork. My approach to picture making is to present ordinary, non-idealised, never staged reality. Such practice is the formulation of an interest in things as they are. By using only one lens which is the most similar to a human field of view, I am capturing the moments and non-moments that drag my attention. I am a sentimental and nostalgic artist and the camera is the best tool to anchor oneself to memories and emotions that are constantly fleeting. My work starts with a strong interest in the moment, light or a situation. The process of looking begins before taking a photograph and continues afterwards. Selecting pictures, printing, making connections, framing or setting up an exhibition space, all of it seems connected to the way of seeing. I immerse myself in the medium fully and utterly.