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Gette fERNANDO

from StopTempo

freelance photographer

When I was 8 years old, I met swimming and I simply fell in love. I remember the first day I was left at the club's pool while I cried because I didn't want to go.

Totally forced they told me "from today you are going to swim". It wasn't long before I understood that my life was in the water. It was giving me everything; my first friend, my first love, my first job, a wet hug, a reason to live.

I started swimming in a small neighborhood club "La Bodega" and over the years I went to many places.

But wherever I went I could see "something" in the eyes of those who shared my sport.

Those who stayed, those who were always there; no matter if it was hot or cold, calm or stormy days. With the boilers at full or with the water at less than 25 degrees. They all had fire in their eyes.

We all shared the same passion, the same love.

And as I walked through the halls of the club where I train today, I saw other sports and other people. And in them I could see those same eyes.

I am a photographer graduated from the "Escuela Argentina de Fotografía" in 2021. Along the 3 years of my career I was developing different skills with the camera and learning multiple disciplines of photography. I gained more interest in the handling of artificial light and I was doing several personal projects around the use of this type of lighting trying to give a dramatic (and often dark) style to my images. In August 2022, my essay "The Club" was permanently hung for the 100th anniversary of "Club Atlético San Miguel" in honor of all the athletes who are part of it. A few months later, the same essay was called for "The International Portofolio Scholarship of The Week of Lights".