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Honorable Mention BIFA 2019 Nature / Underwater

The Freediver Between Pirarucus

  • Photographer
    Camilo Diaz
  • Agency / Studio
    Camilodiazphotography
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention in Nature / Underwater

he freediver Sofia Gomez holds two world records in an extreme sport based on the voluntary suspension of breathing in water while traveling long distances or descending into the sea. On this occasion I immerse myself with her and I make the photograph inside a fragment of the Amazon, an aquarium with more than 320,000 liters of water that represents a flooded forest, one of the most diverse ecosystems on Earth. where its main character is the biggest freshwater fish of South America and the second largest fish in the world. It is known as piraruc? and reaches up to 3 meters in diameter.

Camilo Diaz, born 1981 in Medellin, Colombia, studied Visual Arts at the National University of Colombia and further Fashion Photography, Advertising and Film Studies at various Universities in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His artistic work focuses on the intimate portrayal of people and their immediate lives and surroundings. More than a depiction, his photographs reveal an intimate discovery and allow shared momentum. His subjects are not strangers but rather people with whom he enters a story.