Yamile Calderón is an artist born in Colombia who now lives in Oslo. She studied photography at Bergen National Academy of Arts. She was awarded The Art Photography Prize by The Norwegian Association for Fine Art Photographers for her work Accidentally I got a GoPro. She is currently exhibiting Oslo Stories at Carl Berner Project room. She has recently published her second photo book, Narcos & Homes which documents property of Colombian drug traffickers that has been confiscated by the government.
Calderon's work is inspired by her childhood memories and explores interrelationships between experience, memory, and social and cultural context. By approaching the documentary genre from a subjective perspective, she uses visual and narrative strategies to explore interpretations of reality.
Calderón has participated in various collective exhibitions and has presented her work internationally in Pingyao, Hong Kong, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Kiel and New York. In Oslo her work has been presented at Oslo Kunstforerning, Kunstnernes Hus, Galleri BOA, Noplace, Fotogalleriet, and Galleri Brandstrup.
