Society Portraits

The work of Mauricio Vélez, an artist truly connected with his time, has ventured into various modalities, among them, of course, portraiture, a genre in which this photographer from Antioquia has achieved his most striking achievements, decanting the legacy of such countrymen. illustrious such as Melitón Rodríguez or Benjamín de la Calle. As in all of Vélez's work, in Portraits of Society - this term understood as a group that represents a culture, traditions and values ​​- nothing is left to chance. His records, which combine reality and imagination, testimony and poetry, capture not only the individuality of the characters, but also reveal the photographer's acuity, his sense of humor and his convictions about art, the world and life. .