The Filippo Roversi endowment : Gabriel Gómez

Gabriel Gómez is a 30-year-old fashion and portrait photographer from Caracas, Venezuela. He now lives in France. He has worked with several Venezuelan fashion brands for almost ten years and was awarded the Fila prizes for best documentary work and best silhouette in 2013. He studied at the Institution of Audiovisual Sciences and Photography in Caracas; his editorials and fashion portraits have been published in magazines such as L’Officiel, Wild Dogs in Paris, Dream Magazine, Lustre Magazine, Mudish Magazine, Raro Magazine, Wul colectivo, Fisheye…. He recently won the Prix Unique de Photographie des Prix Jeunes Talents – Édition 2023 à Paris (The Young Talents Awards), awarded by the international organisation Les Agents Associés, and was a guest photographer with Initial Labo for ArtShopping Paris 2023. He also won the prize for best conceptual work at the Fresh Eyes award Rotterdam 2024.

Journal functions as a representation of what is, of what has always been, nothing more than what it claims to be. It seeks to question what we are, what we say, what identifies us, because it was never created in a continuous manner, but claims to be the evolution of what surrounds it. It raises the question of whether we are what we have, the moments we experience, what we think, where we are, whether we are calm, noise, silence, nostalgia, delicacy, vulnerability. At the same time, it’s a photographic series inspired by her fear of forgetting, with each image seeking to convey different sensations without losing the connection between them. The phrase, “you should have come yesterday” takes him back to one of his journeys, reminding him of what, even if it hasn’t yet been experienced, remains, playing with the idea of the presence of absence. In the end, it’s always about being present.

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