Brazilian artist, Tomás Amorim initially studied Geography in Brazil before continuing his studies in visual arts and photography in France in 2015. If photography was initially a tool for his research in Geography, his experience of shooter in the Parisian laboratories where he worked led him to experiment with photography in its physical properties.
In his “Monticolæ” series, he works from folds of paper to create shapes that he molds with plaster. He then applies a photosensitive emulsion to the plate and projects a grazing light so as to reveal the topography of the image. Shadows form and the image appears. Tomás Amorim’s intention is thus to bring photography closer to sculpture and to create photographs from the volume, in an aptic process where the image is born from the hand and the uneven surface of the support.
