Shooting Star - Ilus.Galería

The loss of a loved one causes great pain and always makes us wonder why. This question finds even less of an answer when the loss is that of a child, the absence is still lingering in a categorical manner and the sadness is mostly overwhelming.

Shooting Star is a book that talks about death without talking about the issue. It talks about this inexorable absence but at the same time, and above all, about the presence that preceded it, about remembrances and memory. It tries in a very personal way to show us that the empty space left by absence should be filled with memorable, endearing memories, which are the ones that will find us, without realizing it, with a smile on our face.

Technical specifications

Picture book, 24 pages, 20 x 20 cm.

Published

Unpublished.

Awards

Finalist of the 5th International SoyAutor Book-Album Contest. 2022.

Copyright

Rights available for all languages

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Néstor Ocampo

Graphic Designer, graduated from the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism of the University of Buenos Aires, where he also completed the First Postgraduate Degree in Professional Illustration a few years later. In 2011 he began his training in illustration, specifically in children's illustration. Thus he began this task of storytelling through images at the Sótano Blanco Art School, in the Creative Processes workshop, led by Mariana Ruiz Johnson and Sabina Alvarez Schürmann. He then continued in the Workshop they taught named as “Once upon a Time there was a Book". He is currently working independently as an illustrator. He had collaborated in works that were published by Editorial Edelvives, Santillana USA, Clasikaletet of Israel, and SM Chile, also with Editorial Parmenia, Párrafo Aparte, Letra Impresa and Fundación Leer.

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