Catherine Mamani Valles “Hope in rays of hope"

• Fine art A1 print (594 x 841mm)
• 170g Paper / Profi Bulk / matt coated / woodfree 
• Offset printed at Pinguin Druck in Berlin
• Print is individually numbered and stamped
• Limited Edition 75 pieces!

Catherine Mamani Valles / "Hope in rays of hope" / June 2020 / Berlin

"The series was created on a hot summer day at Teufelssee. It was a spontaneous shooting, the first photo project after a long break. I felt quite lost at that time for several reasons. On the one hand, I realized that I wouldn‘t be able to travel to India as planned to study and become a yoga teacher. It was a feeling of being powerless that I had never experienced before. In addition, I had dropped out of my studies and had not yet dared to tell my parents. On that June day at the lake, I didn‘t yet know what story I wanted to tell. It wasn‘t until I put the pictures into a chronology that I realized they were actually telling an optimistic story. The man in the water rises out and thus finds some light. My situation was indeed difficult and quite different from what I had wished for - but I did not drown. And this is how I want to look to the future from now on: more trust and less hope. Hope includes doubting and fear. I am no longer choosing fear, I choose love - and I trust."

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