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About
Welcome to Piero Photography, the online portfolio of Piero Taico. Piero is a recent graduate of Columbia College in Chicago, majoring in Photography.
Eachother Project
Human beings are both self aware and abstractly creative - two qualities that are unique in the animal kingdom. These two achievements of human development intersect when we are faced with our own mirrored reflection, whether by looking directly into a mirror or even those fleeting moments in public. We recognize our own physical features, but we are confronted with a myriad of other complex emotions. We realize that we are here, we are now, and we exist in a space.
My photographs inspire the viewer to appreciate his fellow human for his existence.The pictures are multiple 4x5 negatives manipulated to create one image. In using a reflective device in each, I capture the moment when we come face to face with the reality of ourselves. The mirrored portrait creates an image that breaks the traditional "viewer/subject" relationship. The subject is no longer an object to admire, but the viewer himself. This unexpected experience bonds the two in an place where "you" and "I" no longer exist; we are just "eachother".
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