Hugo O. Massari

Hugo Omar Massari

I was born in Mar del Plata, Argentina.

I embraced my passion for photography at the age of twelve when I got my first camera, possibly to take after some relatives. However, life led me to study economics and photography turned out to be a mental escape, although I was not entirely detached from it.

I went through architecture, detail, portrait and street photography. However, for some time now, nature photography has been my favourite field where I try to find a source of inspiration to delight my soul.

I attended several courses where I discovered you can only learn the technique and that the feeling every image needs, is simply inside ourselves.

The photography has become a great love and nowadays it allows me to express myself without blushing.

Each time I hold my camera, my brain creates images, my heart gives them feelings, and my eyes, through it, capture them so they can be seen.

Water is Life itself (Art in the Origin - 10/2022)

I ask myself: is there anything more important than life? My answer is no.

Thanks to water life exists.

It is the gift that nature has given to our planet. It is the foundation that has done life possible.

It is present everywhere, inside us, above us, underneath the ground where we step on; it is also in the rivers, lakes and seas where we bathe, as well as in the food we eat.

It is in the whimsical shapes inside an ancient cave. The feeling I get is always the same, excitement and wonder. Another virtue of water is creating beautiful figures

It is colourless but it holds thousands of colours reflected

I can hardly perceive it even when it is ubiquitous

Watercourses, the blood vessels of the Earth. I marvel at the source of a river, how out of nowhere under a rock it suddenly appears; another wonder of water.

Watercourses that connect with us, nurture us. Watercourses that soothe us when we gaze at them.

Water is also movement. Tides rise and fall, forming either a harmonic composition or a messy one if the sea is rough.

Water is also death, wrecks, floods and storms. Death is part of life, even if we don’t accept it as such.

NOTHING IS LEFT WITHOUT LIFE. WITHOUT WATER LIFE IS IMPOSSIBLE.