Master bedroom, penthouse, Carolina Country, Bogotá D.C, 2013

Yamile Calderon was born in Colombia (1974) and live and work in Oslo. She studied photography at Bergen National Academy of Arts.Calderon published her second photo book, “Narcos & Homes”, and her video installation “Accidentally I got a GoPro” was awarded with Bildende Kunstneres Hjelpefonds (BKH) Fotokunstprisen (Photo Art Price), 2021Her work is inspired by memories from her childhood and personal stories. By approaching the documentary genre from a subjective perspective, she explore visual and narrative strategies and the interpretation of reality.Her practice is influenced by the documentary genre and focuses on personal stories, many of which are drawn from her own family. With these personal perspectives, she does not attempt to tell an objective story. Her interest is rather to explore how a person experiences and remembers a specific event, and how this experience and recollection speaks of their immediate and broader social and cultural context. This allows her to investigate the boundaries between fact and fiction, local and global, private and public.Working with personal stories or experiences is interesting for her because it generates a tension between the individual versus the collective. The individual as an accumulation of personal experiences. And the collective as the person who belongs in a cultural and socio-political context and a particular moment in history.Further she works with text because it makes it possible to add to photographs and moving images other layers of the story that are not explicit and at the same time strengthens the presence of the person behind the story.