Fernando Bocanegra

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Starlight Art Consultancy presents Fernando Bocanegra who started as a commercial photographer in the mid 90ʼs as the main photographer for Publitres (now Publicuatro Ogilvy & Mather), one of Panama's top advertising agencies. In the early 2000s he became well known as a fashion photographer and collaborated with several local fashion magazines and ad campaigns. Around the same period of time he started participating in several art projects and important photography exhibitions in museums such as Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá, Museo Reina Torres Araúz, art galleries and art festivals with photography, installations and light boxes.

He was the ambassador of the brand Sony Alpha for 4 years and has given seminars at several local universities. In 2017 he founded a collective “Los del Patíbulo”, a group of 5 well-known photographers, each one with a different branch of photography. They made their first exhibition together in 2018 called “JOURNEY” and since then theyʼve given seminars with important actors of Panama's art world as well as workshops for the new generation of photographers as part of their educational contribution. In 2019 Fernando was given the first
honorable mention in photography at the Concurso Nacional de Artes Visuales Roberto Lewis, a national visual artist contest. His work has been sold at auctions at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá and his latest exhibition "INTEGRIDAD" with his collective "Los del Patíbulo" took place on February 2020.

“Fernando Bocanegra takes us to the world of fashion. In his work the human body is the artístic media, an expression. His proposal is sensual and carefree. The scene is recreated according to the figure.”

-Maylin Pérez Parrado, Curator/ Researcher