Chris Zedano - intimateNYC - Dame Cuchi

Chris Zedano

I come from Lima, Peru and I have been residing in New York City since 2002. My interest in photography emerged while I was processing images at a photo studio. My enthusiasm intensified after witnessing a friend’s passionate commitment to photography. I began by simply taking casual photographs during my free time. My different types of photography have been used in marketing as well as advertisement campaigns. Photography allows me to express my interpretation of the world around me, to explore fragments of life and to interact with people with whom I would normally not engage. My camera is my passport to an unexplored world. I am deeply interested in people. My subject choice derives from my innate curiosity. I am curious as to what lies behind their eyes, where they have been and where they hope to go. My photographs are not always a true representation of the subject in front of my camera. I scrutinize the subjects in front of me, break the paradigms and generalizations and create my own interpretation. An image should evoke a feeling and my goal as a photographer is to determine what that feeling is, whether positive or negative, happy or sad, true or ironic, reality or fantasy. My desire is for my images to trigger something very profound within the observer.