Colombian photographer and graphic designer Oscar Perfer has been a portrait painter by vocation since his childhood in his hometown, Chiquinquirá, Colombia, when he spent his days accompanying his father Israel in the work he did at the Veritas Publishing House of the Dominican priests, where he had his first contact with religious pictorial art. At the same time, he observed how his godfather, the photographer Justo Céspedes, took portraits with his characteristic continuous light and later retouched them by hand with the old pencil technique.
Before dedicating himself to photography completely, Perfer worked as creative director in his design studio, achieving important recognition in the editorial area, which led him to receive various national and international awards. Since 2008, he has focused all his experience on the art of photography. This passion and talent lead him to develop different projects in South America, Europe, and North America.
Restless artist, with a sensitive gaze, influenced by classical Dutch brushes, especially the works of Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Jan Lievens, with a passion for faces and everything that invokes the dreamlike chiaroscuro. Since 2014, he has been developing what will be his particular personal stamp, where pictorial light is the characteristic that he expresses through his hypnotizing portraits. His best-known artistic work is his series called Fijamente, entre lo sacro y lo profane (Fixed, between the sacred and the profane), which has been exhibited in multiple places, being a reference in Colombian portrait photography. Currently, Perfer continues to develop his work in the search for those anonymous faces that we all know exist, that are there and that through his lens captures that essence that goes beyond the physical.
