Ensayo fotográfico que documenta el trabajo de aquellos artesanos de pueblo que van desapareciendo ante la sombra de las grandes corporaciones y el consumismo, que luchan día a día para existir en una sociedad que poco a poco se olvida de ellos.

«On this essay Ocampo has managed to become the proverbial fly on the wall while achieving a degree of intimacy and still remain the neutral observer.

In the first image of the man working the metal. She has managed to capture a man who is such at ease with his environment that he almost seem to become part of the landscape as depicted in the repeating textural patterns of the folds of his shirt and the overall repeating vertical lines found within the frame.

The two images of the mason working on a wall and the shot of the outside of a workshop area complement each other. One that transmits the sort of quite pride and meticulous attention being paid to a task others might consider a mundane action. The other depicts a stark urban environment devoid of people but at the same time evoking a lived-in quality due to the contrast of the dark world outside with the bright lights emanating from the inside.

In the photos of the shoemaker, she achieves the same kind of balance by first bringing the viewer into the frame by showing us a closer look at the product of the man’s work and then guiding our attention to the all-important human within the composition.

The detail shot of the hubcap and the radiator fan blades posses a synergistic visual quality where the inanimate objects transform into abstract geometric figures, which almost seem to have a life of their own.»

Essdras M Suarez / Pulitzer Prizewinner Photographer