Born in Manizales, Columbia, photographer Juan C. Giraldo was raised within the shadow of New York Metropolis, within the midst of the declining business and long-forgotten silk mills of the Riverside neighborhood of Paterson, New Jersey. Although now dwelling in Brooklyn, Giraldo’s expertise rising up in Paterson is mirrored all through his photographic follow, as he gravitates towards documenting the non-public inside areas of working folks, trying to find “the banal indicators of domesticity” that formed his view of the world, each as a first-generation immigrant and laborer.
“Blue & Blue” takes place in Chicago, the place Giraldo moved in 2012. Specializing in the Nice Lakes Reload—a 385,000 sq. foot warehouse that transports, shops, and processes varied sorts of metal merchandise—the collection explores the non-public lives and areas of working-class folks of shade. “Familiarizing myself with their private anecdotes and experiences allowed me to embrace the small print, magnificence, and drama of the mundane, which unfolded as I continued to {photograph} them,” he explains. “Of their tales I see echoes of my previous. Intimate areas reveal the textures of a working life; a Gatorade bottle as a vase uncovers the sweetness within the banality of domesticity. My portraits and nonetheless life images spotlight objects of significance and their iconographic that means in these settings, reflecting a reverence for my private historical past and the lives of the folks I {photograph}.”
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