Toxic Photo Series by Seigar
This series has a double intention, it works as a personal relief from the negative times we are living in, and also as a global warning sign to keep a distance from toxic people and situations. It was a way to exorcise myself from these hard moments through creation. The dark symbols captured: razor blades, drugs, social networks, a knife, a bottle of alcohol, the news, a broken glass, money, and an ice pick were placed on color fabrics to make the photographs pop. There is no need to suffer for free. Get away from toxic. The final message is liberation.
Seigar is a passionate travel, street, social documentary, conceptual and pop photographer based in Tenerife. He feels obsessed with pop culture that he shows in his series. He is a fetishist for reflections, saturated colors, curious finds, and religious icons. He also flirts with journalism and video. His main inspiration is traveling. His aim as an artist is to tell tales with his camera, creating a continuous storyline from his trips. His most ambitious projects so far are his Plastic People, a study on anthropology and sociology that focuses on the humanization of the mannequins he finds in the shop windows all over the world, and his Tales of a City, an ongoing urban photo-narrative project taken in London. He is a philologist and also works as a secondary school teacher. He is a self-taught visual artist, though he has done a two years course in advanced photography and one in cinema and television. He has participated in several exhibitions and his works have been featured in many publications. He has collaborated with different media such as VICE and WAG1. He writes for Dodho Magazine and for The Cultural about photography and pop culture, and for Memoir Mixtapes about music. Lately, he has experimented with video forms. His last interest is documenting identity. Recently, he received the Rafael Ramos García International Photography Award.
