Paula Yubero was born in Madrid in 1997. She is Graduated in Fine Arts (UCM, Madrid), M.A. MAPA (Master in Photographic Projects) at Lens Escuela. Paula has always been a very shy girl. When she was a child, she used to spend most of her time at home hiding in a closet, talking and playing with a friend that nobody but she could see. In that little space, she co-inhabited with all the images that her imagination created; she could see anything she wanted.
Photography is a door to her inner world. Now, she is hiding behind her camera, which allows her to reveal to others what she could see inside that closet.
About El día más largo del año – words by Paula Yubero:
As a daily practice, I work with visual diaries, which have become a poetic and aesthetic approximation to my daily life. They begin with a small experience, something that I read or saw, or triggered just by a simple word.
This format allows me to experiment with poetics and fiction in photography, as I question my reality and the possibilities that this medium offers to the imagination. Subconscious and intuition play an important role in the creative process in the act of shooting. And, later, it is in the process of editing and sequencing that I conceptualize the stories. I shoot without thinking so much, in a continuous daydream state of mind. Since Photography is not a way to document the world objectively, and it is only evidence of itself, I’m more interested in playing with the possibilities of fiction.
These are small poems open to interpretation. A way to inhabit the world and every day through photography. El día más largo del año is a visual story, a part of my diaries, in which a photographic micro-story that takes place during the summer solstice is suggested.
