TITLE : UMBRA
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AUTHOR : LAURA TOMÉ
Laura Tomé’s photographic project invites us to reflect on what we leave behind in our relentless pursuit of constant progress.
“This project emerges from an uncomfortable reality: the tension created by the things we know exist, yet choose to ignore. The relentless pace of progress and modernity often comes at the cost of the silent disappearance of places rich in history. Instead of being preserved, these spaces are abandoned, gradually falling into neglect and decay. In their emptiness, the absence of human presence allows nature to reclaim its place, giving rise to a spiritual, almost tangible silence.
The images captured in this project invite viewers to step into these spaces suspended in time, becoming unique witnesses to solitude, abandonment, and nostalgia. They serve as small windows onto scenes that preserve fragments of a past that no longer exists, in places destined to transform or disappear altogether. In doing so, they reflect the ever-changing reality that surrounds us.”
About Laura Tomé
I am Laura Tomé, half Catalan, half Portuguese.
I am interested in material and social history, not from a nostalgic perspective, but through its present condition: how things transform, deteriorate, or coexist with indifference.
My way of seeing stems from a certain discomfort with what is considered normative. Going against the grain is not an aesthetic choice, but a way of being. The camera emerges as a consequence of that—not to beautify, but to draw attention.
Many of the places I photograph disappear, change, or are transformed. Yet beyond their physical reality, I am interested in revealing what ceases to function within the spaces we inhabit.
I see photography as a way of observing the world without embellishment.
I am drawn to popular culture, kitsch aesthetics, and the underlying fabric of everyday life, because it is often there that what we truly are reveals itself, unfiltered.
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