Photography

In Found Flora, Ventura uses a micro lens iPhone attachment and digital editing to examine plant life at an intimate scale, revealing intricate structures often overlooked by the naked eye. Created in 2022, the series pushes the limits of smartphone photography—embracing its constraints while enhancing detail, color, and form through post-editing techniques. With dramatic framing, selective focus, and precise tonal adjustments, Found Flora invites close inspection and reverence for the hidden complexities of the botanical world.

In Ghostly Apparitions (In Plastic), Ventura confronts the emotional aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic through ghost-like self-portraits, captured roaming dimly lit rooms. Created as a continuation of his lockdown-era work, the series replaces traditional blanket ghosts with translucent plastic sheeting—inviting interpretations of suffocation, concealment, and physical vulnerability. Through hazy reflections, tight framing, and the soft opacity of textured plastic, the images evoke a haunting stillness—where the artist becomes both figure and phantom, present yet fading.

In Glitch Series, Ventura intentionally misuses the iPhone’s panoramic camera function to distort everyday scenes into fragmented, corrupted-hard-drive-like images. Created in 2022, the work draws from Cubist language to offer a contemporary meditation on movement and perception through digital media. Through warped perspectives, shifting shadows, and layered depth, the series evokes an eerie disconnect—where the familiar is made strange.