Photography is a disciplined way of observation. 
Aligned with the eye, the camera becomes an 
instrument of analysis that allows us to represent 
the world around us. That is, to reinterpret and 
to revisit the usual, but with different eyes. Thus, 
photography is not a mere recording but the 
construction of a viewpoint, an interpretation of 
the world.

To this end, analog cameras and procedures are 
adopted, not because of a nostalgic view but as a 
pursuit for higher quality. Unfortunately, a technical 
improvement –digital photography– has brought a 
decline in the aesthetics field. Analog photography 

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pOrtafOLiO fOtOgr áficO / Photogr APhic PortfoLio



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also allows distancing oneself and facing the image 
with a slower tempo, which allows for further 
reflection upon the observed object.

From this point of view I stand in an ambiguous 
field, between natural territories with traces of 
artificiality and artificial territories with natural 
features. I find this intermediate field more 
interesting, hard to define and with diffuse borders. 
The intent of these images is to translate this 
ambiguity into a visual language, built out of tones, 
brightness and darkness, lights and shadows. ARQ

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p h i L i p p E b L a n c
<pblanc@uc.cl>
 
Architect, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 1999. Doctor in 
Architecture and Urban Studies, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 
2010. Since 2010 he works as an architect and as a photographer. Author 
of the photographs in the book Patrimonio arquitectónico u c . Fragmentos 
de una obra (Santiago, 2016) and the exhibition of photographs about it. 
He has exhibited his photographs at the Sala Vitra (2013), Corporación 
Cultural de Las Condes (2015), Centro de Extensión u c (2016) and the 
Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral g A M (2016). Blanc is Associate Professor 
at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.