Leticia Ramos work is mysterious and she almost never leaves her studio. An inventor herself, capable of building improvised cameras to feed them with all sorts of sensitive materials, from microfilm to X-Ray, from old Polaroids to direct positives, Ramos usually dives into deep historical research to learn from the moments when the technique of photography leaped forward. Her suggestive spacial shots and her enigmatic landscapes are all created indoors, be it to emulate meteorites, starry nights, astronomical movements or ray diffraction. Trials, error and hints of modernity are also comfortably incorporated on her process, in a natural blend of perfected imperfections.

– Thyago Nogueria Juror, Hariban Award 2017

Bio

Leticia Ramos is a photographer-scientist, a traveler through the centuries, revisiting the inventions which change the way way we represented the world. Her work is frequently the result of a long process involving the development of devices and techniques to reach a certain goal and her photographic images are the material expression of this search, like maps recording a journey. It is not for nothing, her photographs, paper, abstract or coded, challenges everyone with their power to synthesize.