Summary: | The work of Mauricio Vélez, an artist truly connected with his time, has dabbled in various forms, including, of course, portrait, genre in which this photographer of Antioquia has managed its stronger achievements, decanting the legacy of peers as illustrious as Melitón Rodríguez o Benjamín de la Calle. As in all the Vélezœs work, in "Portraits of Society" - this term understood as a depository group of a culture, traditions and values - nothing is random. Your records, combining reality and imagination, the testimony and the poetry, reflect not only the individuality of the characters, but also reveal the sharpness of the photographer, his sense of humor and his convictions about art, the world and life.
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