(Mexico City, 1957).


ARTIST STATEMENT

I was formed as a photojournalist.
The body of work these images belong to, emerged after a period of 10 years of not exercising any form of image making. The collage form emerged as a response to the need of addressing an internal reality, previously inaccessible and more complex in nature. I must consider these works a collaboration between me and my wife Nayana Rodriguez, who has nourished me, and our life together for the last 20 years and without whose love, expressed in a myriad forms, this project would not have been possible.

The more individual the search is, the more universal it becomes.

ABOUT THE PROCESS

I photograph what feels compelling, attractive, disgusting -the images are correspondences... nods to these connections. Dreams, beliefs, fears, intuition and aesthetics nurse the approach as I move on to amalgamating the image; in the same emotionally conscious and undirected way.
They are not the product of an idea or an association of ideas, but emotional capsules, which also are maps... a diary of maps. The biggest challenge as they are constructed is to stay away from a linear form of thought —letting emotion guide the thrust. It is worth to keep in mind the original function of these documents: appropriation of the depicted territory. In this case I am re-cognizing what con-forms me, therefore owning it.
There is no message to decode. If anything, the transmission of an emotion may take place.

Germán Herrera
August 2011


He was the recipient of an Artist Residency at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, California in 2006. His work was selected by SF Camerawork, the Center for Photographic Art and Photoalliance for their print collector’s programs.

His work is included in public and private collections, amongst them:

Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, California, USA.
Centro Cultural Santo Domingo, México City, México.
Green Library, Stanford University, California, USA.
Fundación Antonio Saura, Cuenca, Spain.
Museum of Fine Arts. Houston, Texas, USA.
Museum of Photographic Arts. San Diego, California, USA.
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, USA.
Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh University, Philadelphia, USA.

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All prints are Archival Pigment Prints on Archival Rag Paper, they are available for purchase.
Prints are available in two sizes:

16" X 20" Edition of 15
24" X 30.5" Edition of 12

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