Gonzalo Lauda
Bio
Gonzalo Lauda (Buenos Aires, 1967) began his photography studies in 1985 with Pedro Luis Raota, Eduardo Gil and Fabiana Barreda. In 2002 he set up his own studio in a warehouse in the Nuñez neighborhood and began to venture into advertising photography, a genre in which he established himself in 2009, when he founded his own production company, STRUKA, to work with large national and international brands. In 2013 he published Agua, his first book, in Reunión photographs of horizons over the sea and lakes of Argentine Patagonia. In 2015 he traveled to the Malvinas Islands, an excursion that materialized in his second book, and with exhibitions at the Malvinas and South Atlantic Islands Museum in the former ESMA. His evident interest in history motivated him, since 2016, to work on the series Independencia, for which he recreates scenes from Argentine history, in directed shots until achieving the desired image.
Statement
Photographer Gonzalo Lauda recreates historical battles of the fight for independence in the places they happened and with real members of the Argentine Army. His search happens because “the viewer falls in love with the story through the visual effects of its images.” The second English invasion, the Battle of San Lorenzo or the Crossing of the Andes are just some of the episodes in the country's history.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
