Carlos Guevara Vivanco · GVivanco
Landscape
as a form
of thought
I was born in San Fernando, Chile, between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. The mountains have been part of my life since childhood. Before I understood photography, I had already learned to walk through cold, wind and snow.
My father passed on to me a love of nature and the desire to go beyond the horizon. My mother taught me to notice small things and find beauty in what often goes unseen. Together, they shaped a way of looking that, many years later, would find its language in photography.
For me, photography is not about capturing the world. It is about entering it until something opens within us as well.
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Education and career
I studied Computer Engineering at the University of Chile and later earned an MBA in Financial Management from the same university.
I have built an extensive career in technology and university teaching. I currently work as Regional Deputy Manager of Networks and Communications for a major Chilean company, with responsibility for Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia.
For years I photographed in order to show the places that moved me. In time, I understood that this was not enough. Landscape ceased to be only what stood before the camera and became a way of exploring what was happening within me.
I do not photograph landscapes to explain what they are like. I photograph them to try to understand what they do within us.
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Landscape and time
My work has developed mainly across the landscapes of Chile, from the high plateau to Cape Horn and Antarctica. Mountains, snow, ice, forest, water and wind appear in my images as languages capable of speaking about time, transformation and our relationship with the world.
Today I work on long-term photographic projects. Beyond Time, born from a sailing expedition to Antarctica, explores the memory held within ancient ice. Loquium deepens that search and proposes a central idea: time as the true architect of landscape.
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Photographic education
In 2017 I graduated from the New York Institute of Photography’s Professional Photography Course, a 270-hour program focused on the technical and practical development of photographic projects.
