CASITA DE TURRÓNROBERTO TONDOPÓ
Edited by Roberto Tondopó + Ana Casas Broda
Design José Luis Lugo
Book published by Hydra in co-edition
with editorial La Fábrica, FOTOGRAFICAMX and Conaculte
In this series, Roberto Tondopó explores the tumultuous chapters in the passage from childhood to adolescence of his nephews Andrea and Ángel, searching for the fusion between the child's gaze and the adult perspective to arrive at the union of their imagination, the struggle for their individual independence and the construction of their identity. She does this through colourful images that are captured in a book full of textures and sensations.
The photographer recreates scenes that combine reality and fiction through "a combination of direct information and enigmas so that the image can be the threshold of a story waiting to be told" and in them he seeks an emotional involvement. The volume includes a booklet comprising a series of texts written by the photographer between 2008 and 2014. A total of 29 writings that follow an arbitrary composition. These follow one after the other on paper in the form of small reflections and autobiographical events that take us back into a world between childhood and adolescence.
"About Casita de turrón, by Roberto TondopóCasita de turrón is a book about the transition between childhood and adolescence of my nephews, Andrea and Ángel. Based on reality, it is a narrative fiction based on the evocation of that transitional period in the development of our sexuality: puberty. My interest is to detonate those parts of the unconscious where the repressed emerges; that touches on aspects of the sinister, to open the threshold of representation of the image that alludes to all interpretation and makes mystery possible, sometimes of a disconcerting nature. My work revolves around the same obsessions; they constitute internalised myths, and is above all an atonement, insofar as it arises from a need to restore those deep connections between past and present, fantasy and memory".
Roberto Tondopó
ABOUT CASITA DE TURRÓN
Roberto M. Tondopó (Chiapas, Mexico, 1978) studied at Seminario de Fotografía Contemporánea del Centro de la Imagen and has a degree in Graphic Design. He teaches photography at Gimnasio de Arte Chiapas in Mexico. His work has been part of group exhibitions at the Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles, the Photoville Festival 2012 in Brooklyn, the 9th Paraty Em Foco, the III Foro Latinoamericano de Fotografía de Sao Paulo and PHotoEspaña 2013. He was also selected for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2011 and for the biennial Photoquai 2013. Member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores, he has been awarded a grant from program de Fomento a Proyectos y Coinversiones Culturales (2013) and Jóvenes Creadores 2010-2011 and 2008-2009 from the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes en México; the Tierney grant in New York in 2011 and an honourable mention in the FotoVisura Grant 2014. Among other magazines, his photographs have been published in The Sunday Times Magazine, GUP, OjodePez, ZoneZero, The Josh, Pic Nic, Tierra Adentro and RARA.
ROBERTO TONDOPO
Roberto M. Tondopó (Chiapas, Mexico, 1978) studied at Seminario de Fotografía Contemporánea del Centro de la Imagen and has a degree in Graphic Design. He teaches photography at Gimnasio de Arte Chiapas in Mexico. His work has been part of group exhibitions at the Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles, the Photoville Festival 2012 in Brooklyn, the 9th Paraty Em Foco, the III Foro Latinoamericano de Fotografía de Sao Paulo and PHotoEspaña 2013. He was also selected for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2011 and for the biennial Photoquai 2013. Member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores, he has been awarded a grant from program de Fomento a Proyectos y Coinversiones Culturales (2013) and Jóvenes Creadores 2010-2011 and 2008-2009 from the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes en México; the Tierney grant in New York in 2011 and an honourable mention in the FotoVisura Grant 2014. Among other magazines, his photographs have been published in The Sunday Times Magazine, GUP, OjodePez, ZoneZero, The Josh, Pic Nic, Tierra Adentro and RARA.