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JOSÉ ANDRÉS BASBUS - PHOTO EXHIBIT

Opening reception: Thursday, August 30, 6 pm
The exhibit will run until October 4, 2018
Free and open to the public

The point is that the image generates doubt, that the viewers try to figure out what theyre looking at, the place, and the angle the shot was taken. That is what directs José Andrés Basbus every time he snaps the shutter button on his camera. He achieves this, in part, through the composition of his panoramic landscape postcards with an infrared effect.

Basbús, born in Santiago del Estero, Argentina, has a rich personal and professional history that allow him to have a reflective view and a polysemic sensitivity that come as second nature. He is a lawyer and a career diplomat; he speaks Italian and English; he takes striking photographs that have been internationally acclaimed by nikonians.org and the magazines Photo Techniques and Outdoor Photographer; and he has had photo exhibitions in Argentina, Chile, the US and Uruguay.
Former Argentine Consul in Maldonado, Uruguay, he has dedicated over 20 years to photography. His diplomatic career has taken him places like Patagonia, that demand to be photographed.

Many of his images were published in the book Photoshop Restoration and Retouching, PhotoTechniques Magazine and Viva Magazine, in Argentina.

Cecilia Pereyra Alvarez, an Uruguayan visual artist described Josés style as realities distorted by technical ability powered by creativity and inventiveness. He has a particular vision - an element, deduced to be an object, that the viewers are challenged to identify correctly. He has a new perspective on his surroundings, a world in each photo. Vivid, refreshing, stimulating colors that cause us question the time of day the photo was taken. He presents an abstract version of the Planet Earth that Jules Verne would have certainly related to. His artistic inspirations include Ansel Adams, Galen Rowell, John Shaw, Jeff Schewe, Art Wolfe, Katrin Eximan, Ethan Meleg, Darwin Wigget and Daryl Benson, among others.