Racccle (1991, Nerva, Huelva) is the alias of Raquel Labrador Selma, an Andalusian photographer whose practice moves between analog photography, collage, and visual experimentation. Trained in Fine Arts and Artistic Photography, her work emerges from an intuitive relationship with images, understood both as documents and as creative material.
From an early age she developed a fascination with collecting images, clippings and visual fragments, a gesture that continues to shape her way of seeing. Collage has deeply influenced how she constructs images: observing, isolating and recomposing elements. In her photographic practice, this logic translates into a gaze capable of detecting unexpected connections between objects, colors and everyday scenes.
Racccle works primarily with analog photography, drawn to the physical nature of the process and to film’s ability to capture light and color with a distinctive texture. Her work is built around a constant interest in forms, surfaces, intense chromatic relationships and subtle visual gestures of daily life, transforming seemingly ordinary scenes into images charged with sensitivity.
Her photographs often feature found objects, garments, urban details, fruits, vernacular architecture or coastal landscapes, all captured through a perspective that oscillates between documentary and visual poetry. Each image functions as a fragment of a larger archive: a kind of visual diary in continuous construction, to which the artist returns in order to reinterpret and evoke moments.
Her work reveals a particular sensitivity for finding spontaneous compositions where others might only see the mundane. Color plays a central role: vibrant reds, saturated pinks and luminous yellows appear in scenes where elements seem to converse almost accidentally, generating images with striking visual presence.
From a critical perspective, Racccle’s photography stands out for its ability to extract visual power from the banal. Her images transform seemingly trivial situations —a parked scooter, a garment draped over a car, a storefront, fruit scattered on the ground— into small compositions charged with atmosphere. This approach, close to the logic of collage, reveals a finely tuned intuition for balance between forms, color and space within the frame.
Far from spectacle or artifice, her work is built through patient observation and a sensitivity deeply connected to Mediterranean and Andalusian environments. Harsh light, domestic objects, vernacular architecture and everyday landscapes become the quiet protagonists of her photographs.
The result is a body of work that sits somewhere between personal diary, visual archive and aesthetic exploration, where each image functions as a fragment of memory.
Since 2009 she has been based in Seville, where in 2019 she co-founded Sol Lab, an analog photography laboratory dedicated to film processing, experimentation and the preservation of traditional photographic practices.
You will find a selection of her best pictures in HERDES’ last issue. Andalusia · Issue 19
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