Mateo Pérez Correa (Medellín, 1973) is the author of the cover's image. He studied philosophy and mathematics at the Universidad de los Andes. In 2000 he studied photography at the International Center of Photography in New York. He currently lives and works in Bogotá (Colombia) as a photographer and professor at Universidad Javeriana. His works reflect on the interactions between human beings and the territory they inhabit, and, more broadly, explore how landscapes can be understood in relation to photographic images. He also works as an editor in Colombia for the South American photography journal Sueño de la Razón.
The cover's photograph (Bosque VII, Impresión Glicée, 100x120cm, 2012, Edición 1/5) belongs to the project El Salto, Geografía de la Mirada, which seeks to explore landscape photography through a series of images taken at the Salto del Tequendama (in the vicinity of Bogotá) as a place of evident tensions: The Salto del Tequendama is often seen as a majestic landscape that attracts the gaze of all tourists, as a historical icon of the nation. But also, El Salto is seen as a dumping ground for the uncontrolled pollution of the Bogotá River and as a fatal landscape where people come to commit suicide and alleviate their pain. These artistic motivations address issues of landscape control and configuration in the relationship between man and the space he inhabits.
Published: 2019-02-09