Javier Molina Photography
Explore a captivating collection of portraits, landscapes, and still life photographs that showcase skill and creativity.
About the photographer
Looking back over the long career of the photographer Javier Molina the first thing that stand out is the wide spectrum of themes and creative techniques that characterise his work. It is testament to the artist’s restless creative mind constantly seeking new perspectives for reflecting and expressing his understanding of the world around us. For Javier Molina life is not just the proverbial journey – is a journey of creative and aesthetic discovery.
Moving from black and white photography to colour was an important development in Javier Molina’s work with wide ranging implications as where his creative journey would take him. Expansive landscapes of his home country allowed him to explore and play with a rich palette of colours expertly used to interpret and give expression to what artistic eye captures through the lens of his camera.
Javier Molina’s characteristic use of colours led him to what, to some extent, has become a leitmotiv of his work – that is to say transcending boundaries of creative media and blurring the lines between photography and traditional painting. In some ways he reverses the principle of photorealism in paintings by incorporating painterly elements into his work.
Whether looking at Javier Molina’s dramatic expansive Latin American mountain ranges or Kent landscapes in England – the photographer’s country of residence for many years – one often sees aspects of a visual form of magic realism.
In the context of Javier Molina’s work it is perhaps no coincidence that magic realism is part of his vision being not only a literary and artistic movement that emerged in Latin America in the mid-20th century. This movement is characterised by the fusion of the magical or fantastical with the everyday, blurring the lines between reality and fantasy. While magic realism is often associated with literature, it has also had a significant influence on visual arts, including photography, in Latin America.
In photography, Latin American magic realism often manifests in surreal and dreamlike images that incorporate elements of fantasy or the supernatural into everyday scenes. Photographers use various techniques to create this magical realist effect, such as double exposures, manipulation of lighting and shadows, and combining elements from different photographs to create a composite image.
Accompanying magic realism in Javier Molina’s work are recurring metaphysical and sometimes surreal elements – not only in his landscape photos but also in portraits and still life images.
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