Carolina Smania Photography
{ Where DREAMS are possible }
ABOUT
I am a Fine Arts Photographer deeply moved by a movement of the 19th century called pictorialism. This movement had the purpose of elevating what was seen at the moment like a mechanical reproduction of reality to the Fine Arts realm. The hierarchy of the image creation is settle then in the emotional aesthetics rather than in the actual subject, which establishes a sense of nostalgia or romantic reminiscence.
This process was made possible by manipulation either in the camera or at the darkroom.
I am a traveler and my main work is centered in landscapes, they are personal leaves for solitudinous and self reflection as the adventurer in me discovers new worlds and answers. My work is the construction of those states, using tools as symbols and semiotics to create my visions.
I have tried to keep myself open to different opportunities and I have done for those purposes many portraits, weddings, advertisings and enjoyed my hours and minutes of it.
FOR PORTRAITS PLEASE CHECK:
www.carolinasmaniaportraits.com
I hope you enjoy the journey, thank you for passing by!
Caro
Awards:
https://px3.fr/winners/hm/2015/1-54593-15/
https://www.photoawards.com/winner/zoom.php?eid=8-29584-11
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Unconscious. Chris R Lueth Agency, Inc. - American Family Insurance & PAAC. Wisconsin.023
2010 Mi Sur. The Infinite Art Gallery. Long Beach, California.
2008 The Paths of an Imaginary Memory (Installation). Gomez Miralles Gallery, San Jose, Costa Rica.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014 Dreamers, Misfits & Rebels. Conceptual Fine Art Portraits, at Star Gallery, in City of Arts Factory, Orlando, Florida.
2010 Love & Hate. (Installation). Picture This Gallery, Long Beach, California.
2005 Life & Dead: Birth & Bereft of the being. (Installation). Fotosetiembre, Veritas, San Jose, Costa Rica.
2005 Fashion Project, at La Alianza Francesa of San Jose, Costa Rica.
2005 Sobre la Seguridad Social en Costa Rica, United Nations Project, At Museo Nacional de Los Ninos, San Jose, Costa Rica.
2005 Windows of my soul. (Installation). Fotoveritas, Gomez Miralles Gallery, San Jose, Costa Rica.
2005 Landscapes, E.A.R.T.H. Library, Guacimo, Limon, Costa Rica.
2004 Movil. (Installation). Gomez Miralles Gallery, San Jose, Costa Rica.
2004 Sobre la Seguridad Social en Costa Rica, United Nations Contest Exhibit, Gomez Miralles Gallery, San Jose, Costa Rica.
Education
Special Effects (After Effects)
2007 - 2006 IMVAL Audio-Visual Training Center, Bilbao, Spain.
Cinema, TV and Video
2007 - 2006 IMVAL Audio-Visual Training Center, Bilbao, Spain.
Design & Web pages
2007 - 2006 IMVAL Audio-Visual Training Center, Bilbao, Spain.
Fine ArtsPhotography
2008 - 2004 UNIVERSITY VERITAS, San Jose, C.R.
2004 - 2003 SCHOOL OF PHOTOGRAPHY MEMORANDUM, San Jose, Costa Rica.
Architecture
1998 - 1994 UNIVERSITY OF DESIGN, San Jose, Costa Rica.
1996 - 1996 CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF CORDOBA, Cordoba, Argentina.