'Florencia Blanco's story of Salta' Rural Living

Backey from Criders, Virginia - 04/18/10 03:25

In 2002, Florencia Blanco won the FiftyCrows IFDP for her images of the people and place that she grew up in Salta, Argentina. The essay, Salteños, titled after the name used for residents of the area, documented the daily life in the city, which holds a peculiar diversity and strangeness. A thick tension exists between those with native heritage and those with European heritage.

Blanco depicted the class difference in Salta by photographing the elaborate parties and costumes of the rich and the rural simplicity of the poor lower class. She also captured this separation by highlighting the interiors of peoples homes from barren, religious icon adorned walls to plush, colorful, oil-painting and family photography rich living rooms, bedrooms and bathrooms. Seven years after winning the IFDP, Blanco is having a book published on the Salteños project.

Blancos new work seems to extend from her Salta images of oil paintings and family photography in peoples homes. With Painted Photos, Blancos fascination with vintage hand painted photographs leads her to create new venues for viewing the images. The setting that she photographs the painted photo in creates a different history for the image that might have lost its roots. With others, she tries to connect the image back to their family through the environment that she places the photo in.

• IFDP winner Florencia Blanco

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