Promenade en Imágenes – Dínamo Cultura Magazine

Photographer Cynthia Bandurek explores an odd and amazing universe. Insects and fungi which mesmerize due to their complexity and beauty.

In charge of November´s gallery at Revista Dínamo, Cynthia Bandurek has an interest for the natural world and its preservation which is innate, according to her. ‘Since I was little, I have been enthused by nature and saddened by the planet deterioration we are causing’ she affirms.

The arrival of photography into my world took place by chance and became almost a means to get in contact with that little world. ‘Macrophotography has enabled me to discover a world which more often than not remains imperceptible due to its size and because it is outside the interests at play in the cities and the times demanded by contemporary life’, she reveals to us.

‘Photography appeals to me more not only for the beauty of the image but for its enormous capacity to communicate. It allows me to become a part of nature, it allows me to explore my creativity and above all, it enables me to discover through the lens what our eyes due to their limitation in many instances hinder us to see. Photography serves the purpose of immortalizing unique moments’, she adds.

The images encompassed in ‘El mundo de lo pequeño’ (The world of the tiny) reveals the colors and the amazing beauty of that unknown universe to the common eye. ‘ Between their smallness and our restrictions for seeing them due to our limited biology, there is a completely thrilling world, full of structures, colors, survival and reproductive stratagems which no idea man could improve in their fictions’, she asserts.

Though 36-year-old Bandurek´s interest for the tiny world goes beyond: she pursued Ecology and Environmental studies followed by a career of field naturalist. She also traveled around Argentina, visiting National Parks and Natural Reserves in different provinces. Likewise, she displayed her work at the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia (Argentine Natural Sciences Museum Bernardino Rivadavia) and at the 1st Bird Meeting in Gualeguaychú, along with on diverse magazines. Soon, she will expose at the 4th SouthAmerican Bird Fair in San Martín de los Andes (Argentina).

About the Author: cynthiabandurek

Cynthia is an ecologist, naturalist and wildlife photographer, with a big passion for conservation, and visual storytelling. Editor contributing for Paws Trails Magazine, and author of the book "The world of small. An approach of the universe from an artistic, vusual and evolutionary perspective". She gives workshops of photography and macrophotography.