BIO
Who is the woman behind the lens?
Behind Camer@work is LulaA., (Lula Alvarez) museum consultant and photographer. Passionate about photography she has been taking photographs since she can remember, using whenever she could her father’s different cameras, the Voigtlander or the successive Canons he had. But it was at 15 years old when she received her first own camera as a birthday present: a Kodak Pocket Instamatic., when she knew that the relationship was for life.
Her photos then were of personal value: home, family portraits and events, but also of historic value, because at that time she was living abroad in Arab countries, and she felt the need to document everything, so she could always remember. That became an urge along the years, still is. “Photography for me was, and still is about building an archive, a repository of memories”. Along the time is has developed into being an indispensable professional tool”.
In the last 20 years the camera has been a vital tool for documenting cultural events, ideas and concepts in research, intellectual statements, portraits of social or aesthetic behaviours and trends. Images have been essential part of her work, especially used as analysing within the context of museums.
