Yolanda del Amo

Contact Sheet 159

Contact Sheet 159 was published in conjunction with the exhibition Archipelago held in the Light Work Main Gallery November 1 to December 23, 2010. In the series Archipelago, Artist Yolanda del Amo photographs family, friends, and acquaintances in various settings around the world as they perform scenes from a universal narrative about close human relationships. 

To name her series, del Amo uses a metaphor that describes the turbulent nature of intimacy. Powerful forces deep below the surface of the earth form archipelagos, which are chains or clusters of individual islands. Concerned with the geography of human interaction, del Amo depicts the natural forces that lie just below the surface of relationships between people–their conflicting and ever-present needs for intimacy and connection, independence and individuality. 

In Archipelago, these competing forces seem to have reached a temporary stasis that has driven del Amo’s subjects inward to their own thoughts and feelings. Each photograph represents a fragile time in any relationship when people–whether they are mothers and sons, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, lovers, or simply friends–momentarily live alone, together.

Publisher: Light Work
Soft Cover
Publication date: November 1, 2010
Essay by Mary Goodwin 
Language: English
Print length: 48 pages
Illustrations: 38 (color)
ISBN-10: 0935445706
ISBN-13: 978-0935445701