Emily NemracPhotography

Carmen Sanchez looking through a cine camera as her hair blows beneath an overcast sky. — Film / self-studyBy Carmen Sanchez

Selected workFour selected projects

Selected

Photographs assembled, collected, rebuilt and moved.

02 / Working archive

Visual
notes

Loose photographs, fragments and observations kept beside the finished projects.

Holiday Motel sign against a clear blue sky.

A sunlit exterior corridor with repeating brick columns.

A person in an octopus costume on the beach.

Sunlight passing through a canopy of trees.

Photographic study of an industrial structure.

A working collection of passing light, found colour and photographs made between longer projects.

01 / About

I am:

Carmen Sanchez.
Human magpie, memory collector and continuous explorer.

I record the world around me—not only what I see, but how I feel and remember it. I love experimenting with media and materials, looking at their capacity for storytelling. The work moves through analogue photography, montage, installation, handmade ceramic tile, scanography and other forms.

Carmen seated with her back to the camera, looking across the Venetian lagoon.

02 / Material notes

What the
image becomes

Film grain. Layered prints.
Cobalt seams. Scanner light.

Pumares holds family and place in assembled photographs. American Textures reads recurring surfaces. Cobalt rebuilds a film image by hand. Diffractive Flora lets flowers shift under the scanner.