Project Detail: Medical personnel in the ICU of the Hospital "J. R. Jiménez"

Contest:

LuganoPhotoDays 2016



Brand:

LuganoPhotoDays



Author:

Francisco J. Fernández Gómez

 

Project Info

Medical personnel in the ICU of the Hospital "J. R. Jiménez"

This work was conducted in the ICU of the Hospital "Juan Ramon Jimenez" over 18 months in different
shifts and after capturing more than 1,000 photographs, I wanted above all to document routine and
daily activity of health working in this place so complicated, always bearing in mind that he could not
recognize any patient, respecting their privacy, and that was not a scene from a technical too bloody. There is throughout the series a recurring item that appears often, they are the windows, as a symbol
of longing, anxiety, and hope that patients are being admitted to a box, sometimes without power or
even move a muscle , you are sure the window with the uncertainty of whether one day to go outside
world, ultimately, if they come back to life again. On the other hand, for my work as a nurse in the ICU, I have very present death, as I have witnessed
very sad situations and authentic family dramas. Hard to bear even being alien and part of my daily
routine. So I can say, I found the picture to some extent, a way to cheat death, by the magic that it
has to immortalize, never better, people, times, and places. Thank you very much to Photography.

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