A crucial turning point happened with the loss of a family house in the Catalan Pyrenees where I spent most of my holidays when growing up. By then, approaching with the camera to that place and documenting the landscape and the lifestyle old and new generations had been following, felt like the right thing to do. By combining my own memories and the present, I created a portrait of what surrounded my life for so long, and I was leaving behind. With this new perspective, I was able to deconstruct the idealised vision of the kid I once was, and I allowed myself to open my mind to new narratives. From engaging with them from a delicate perspective where the viewer is invited to reflect their own personal connections, The Loudest Silence explores the relationship between collective and personal experiences on love, loss, and the passage of time. Topics that can be both universally resonant and intimately personal.
Berta Mars
Berta Mars is a photographer from Barcelona based in Dublin. Her practice is a mix of Portraiture, Documentary and Fine Art Photography, and often explores topics that involve human relationships to capture the essence of people and places from an intimate perspective. Berta graduated from an Advanced Vocational Training on TV and Media Communications in her hometown. In Dublin, she enrolled in Griffith College where she graduated in 2023 from a BA (Hons) in Photography. During her final year, she produced “The Loudest Silence” as her graduate project, with which she was shortlisted on the RDS Visual Media Awards and selected to be part of the RADAR program run for PhotoIreland. Berta’s work has also been part of the annual print fair Halftone in the Library Project several times.
