Nature as Backdrop

by Sabrina Srur from Montevideo, Uruguay

I am lucky enough to be secluded in nature during quarantine, in a country that has three and a half cows per human being, wandering around the landscape. But I am a city person. I like to shoot in a studio setting.

How can one continue with the artistic practice, be true to one's visual language while being stuck in the woods, isolated, and with no one around?

I decided to take the studio outside, and treat it as my main subject. This daily ritual of photographing the studio itself transformed nature into my backdrop. Will I ever go back to the city again?

Sabrina Srur is a Montevideo based photographer, currently finishing her Creative Practice program online at ICP, from the small town of Manantiales, Uruguay.

Her work is influenced by her fashion and commercial background. She is interested in investigating how photography constructs representation and identity, and is currently working on projects around family archives, self-portraiture, and transformation.

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