Patagonia

PATAGONIA

by

Luis Franke

Within the common sense, the word PATAGONIA contains concepts of harsh climate, strange environments, specialized nature and unique lives.

The images offered by the photographic sequences of this exhibition try to place the observer within a very peculiar physical environment and a strange sensation of integration with the surroundings.

The climate has molded forms, both inert and alive, of formidable sensory impact. Skies, winds, ice; rocks, clays, sand; waters, flowers, life; works, faces; everything is possible to find in such an elemental and complex universe of the extreme south of America.

The human presence, from its first original settlers to the gauchos of the rural Patagonian world of today, shows in their tasks, their profiles and their attitudes an evidence of perfect integration with the land that shelters them.

Here, then, is a set of images to measure and quantify the distant and magnificent spectacle that this region of the Earth represents in sensations.