Martina Lopez' works are all taken from her own physical memories - family photographs. Using the people in the photographs, she creates new stories by combining them with unrelated images in order to evoke a different sort of emotional response. She said that she uses her own history as a base for the images, but anyone is free to interpret them how they want.
Visually speaking, I find the work kind of odd. The mixture of black and white with few-toned color backgrounds creates an interesting juxtaposition, but it makes the people look like they are just pasted on over other pictures, or that someone colored in the backgrounds and left the people alone. It kind of gives the impression that the people are forever frozen in time whereas the environment and world around them continues to change.
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