A man stands still amidst a barren forest,
dirtied and disheveled by some unforeseen
occurrence. With his right hand raised in
defence, he denies the offering of a lush,
vibrant rose of unknown intent; his eyes are
stricken by anger or anguish, love remembered
or lost, bared apathy or steely resolve--or
perhaps, by all of them at once.
“Storytelling is my thing,” says Spanish
photographer, Fran Garcia.
It certainly is.
While “chaos, randomness and disorder”
could be used to describe his work, Garcia has
the capacity to amalgamate a vast array of
sensations, believing all feelings to be united
and birthed of the same family. Through this,
he is able to evoke an emotional singularity,
creating a black hole gravitized by the totality of
human emotion. In this space, emotion is void
of differentiability and becomes dependent
solely on how the viewer themselves feel in
that moment.
“Even if my pictures only try to express
my intimate emotions, I always try to move
people to feel related to them, today or in any
moment of their lives,” says Garcia.
Garcia’s self-portraiture, in its poignant,
poetic and deftly passionate delivery, is
inspired by almost every artistic and emotional
expression. Infused with essences of other art
forms such music, literature, film and painting,
the process of his work is entirely self-made;
Garcia is the artist, subject, conceptualizer and
the realizer of his every project.