La fotografía como medio de intervención artística y expresión simbólica de la realidad infantil

Abstract

With the passage of time in the history of Ecuador, child labor has been one of the social problems that is still in force, unemployment, poverty, are manifestations that have increased during the pandemic from the COVID-19, where this problem has intensified, in addition to health problems advanced hand in hand with both economic and social difficulties. It is pertinent to approach this problem from a comprehensive perspective, taking into account that all social indicators of children's welfare show that there is a clear disadvantage of children who work compared to those who do not, resulting in disability, illiteracy and abandonment. This artistic research aims to invite the public to reflect on this problem through an artistic proposal, which consists of a photographic series, which used key elements that show a reality that grows more and more every day, this series is accompanied by a qr code which contains more information about the problem. For this purpose, the use of photography as an artistic object has been taken as a reference for the realization of the proposal, the same that has been considered as a means of artistic expression for its ability to make visible stories, thus achieving, sensitize the viewer to this problem that at the present time means a constant in our reality. Within the process we have taken into consideration some artistic references, which contributed to our artistic research work, both formally and theoretically; in this sense, we made a tour of his works to analyze them and thus be able to have a clear idea for the development of the proposal, in this case has been taken as the main reference the work of Joel Peter Witkin; one of the most outstanding photographers for his provocative and polemic works about death, religion and myth, when reviewing his works, it can be seen that his work is suggestive, although in many occasions it has been rejected, in addition to this, several conceptual and theoretical authors are also cited. As a result of the research work was able to produce a photographic work that had an impact on public space, the sites where we proceeded to place the work was in the city of Machala on June 25 Avenue and in Santa Rosa, on the streets El Oro, Guayas, Antonio José de Sucre and August 30, all have been placed near public entities such as the Judiciary and Municipality, in the same way we chose to use social networks for the exhibition of the work, and thus to gather information to proceed to make the critical discussion and conclusions. On the other hand, it is important to mention that intervention has been one of the main strategies of contemporary art, from the avant-garde to the present day, a modern tool that allows us to explore new forms of interpretation, whether ephemeral or permanent.