Luna Tristá born in 1980 in Havana, Cuba, she formed herself as a photographer at the University High School of Image and Design in Barcelona. Her world in black and white shows her obsession for the past.
Her images communicate a mixture between glamour and decadence. It’s difficult to feel indifferent in front of their strength. Her mainly female bodies are portrayed in their intimacy, they show themselves without fear to her eye that looks them from the inside.
About ‘Lolita‘:
“Lolita has for reference the Lolita of Nabokov, they are photographs from young teenagers, with that veil of innocence that characterizes that period which includes between the childhood which leaves behind, the maturity and the knowledge of the body, the extreme, and audacious. This project is an ode to the youth. That central stage of transition, of discovery of one’s own identity.”
Luna Tristà goes looking for beauty, her idea of beauty, which allows her to discover strange characters but with a strong inner personality. Her artistic process involves entering into the lives of these subjects, trying to understand them in their entirety.
The people who touch her most, have something of herself, “I can see it in their gaze, in the way they move, a second before taking their photo.”
For most of her projects she uses black and white photography, which in the past has been an obsession, a result of her experiences.Women portrayed in photographs are women who aren’t afraid to be criticized, don’t censor their bodies or their sexual orientation, they don’t look into the camera but directly into the eyes.
She prefers to portray women in their intimacy, not having any type of filter or disorder from the outside world, she represents routine and despair every day. Silence, dark colors, general imperfections, sex and women are her source of endless inspiration.
