Altitude/

Ref. A precise measurement that allows to establish the position of a point in relation to sea level.

Based on the Atlas de los Andes project, Altitud presents Camilo Echavarría’s research in a context where geographic elevation determines the transformation of nature. The images have been constructed with an intention that oscillates between the methods that chroniclers and researchers used to describe the territory, the technical sophistication of photography, and an accurate reflection on the representation of the landscape.

The images have been elaborated following strategies that embrace the methods used by chroniclers and researchers between the 17th and 19th centuries to describe the territory, the technical sophistication of photography and an accurate reflection on the representation of the landscape.

In Altitud, photography functions as a device that activates emotions and memories that speak of our relationship with the territory and time. This has to do with the idea of landscape, which, more than an objective and static entity, is a construction that reveals itself when the observer interacts with the sensory information he receives from the environment. Echavarría observes, collects, and configures fiction that triggers memories and readings that lead perception toward discovery.

Camilo presents the Andean landscape as an entity that contains the relationship between its inhabitants and their natural surroundings. The names of the pieces serve as geographical references that allow us to read the images and become substrates that narrate a travel experience, which, similar to his methods, oscillates between contemplation and description; the totality and the fragmented; the diminutive and the majesty.