CECILIA GARCIA
BIOGRAPHY
I was born, raised and educated in Mexico City, the only daughter and youngest of eight siblings.
After completing high school, I went on to attend and graduate from UNAM (Mexico University) with a Bachelors of Science degree in Bio-Chemical Pharmacology with a specialized concentration in Biochemistry and Bio-pharmacy. Following, I attended graduate school at San Francisco State University.
Primarily an amateur photographer, I got my first camera at eight years old and became involved in the darkroom at ten years old. As a perennial student, I have taken photography classes in Houston, Texas, at the Community College and at Rice University. I enrolled in a formal, professional photography class in Houston in 1996, and then was certified as a Professional Photographer in 2002 by the New York Institute of Photography.
I have been involved with the photography community for over ten years through a diverse and interesting variety of photography clubs, workshops, seminars, shows, and contests/exhibits, and am an award winning photographer in local, regional and national exhibitions.
ARTIST STATEMENT
For me, the art of photography is a form of meditation that amplifies perceptions of the existing world surrounding us.
Photography has to be experienced; words are insufficient to express what the photographer sees through a lens. It is a synthesis of camera, subject, and a personal point of view… I have always been intrigued by an art form that can capture an image permanently, allowing a moment in time to become recorded and forever enjoyed. Photography is unique in its nature – taking a subject that is real in the world, and transforming it into a highly personalized object of art, the meaning of which can be projected onto it by its audience.
It is in an alchemical moment – when light, lens, and location intersect from the moment a lens captures an image, to the moment the image is printed - revealing a mysterious transformation of ordinary subjects… into wonder!...