Creative Quickie: Cristina Otero’s Bloody ‘i am.’

Cristina Otero - i am

Cristina Otero’s Gruesome ‘i am.’ is a Perfect Halloween Creative Quickie

With September quickly zooming by and Halloween right around the corner, the timing couldn’t be better for a macabre Creative Quickie from Spanish artist/photographer Cristina Otero, whose latest self-portrait is entitled, “i am.”

Using a Pentax K-5, the talented 16-year-old captures herself in some convincing special effects makeup, sporting a horribly bloody eye as tears stream pale her face.

Cristina shoots her portraits with . Keep up with her on Facebook and Twitter at @cristinaotero_.

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Editor-in-Chief at Sinuous Magazine, designer, and founder of NYC-based boutique design firm theComplex Media & Design. I've been designing for 13 years, writing on the internet for about the same, and I appear on radio and podcasts under the name "Lanae Mc'Levans." Photographer and overall geek who is passionate about art, music, politics, technology, fashion, and women's issues. A serial day-dreamer. Foul-mouthed. Opinionated.