Portraid

Portrait is, for me, the most gratifying field in photography since it has the potential to transmit in just one image the character of a person. The eyes, the face’s expression, the position of the body and the interaction with the environment, everything describes perfectly the distinctive of the person. The photographer task’s here is to immortalize the exact moment when the portraied is himself, that is, when he forgets that a camara is pointing at him and so he flows though his own thoughts. Then is possible to achieve a real portraid.

The pictures than I chose are a tiny representation of my work in that field. It covers from a report portrait since a publicity portraid.

 

The Jazz Sensuality

The work that you are holding in your hands emerge with the reading of “La Espiral” from Italo Calvino. The text attracted to me because of the way the author describes the seduction between two mollusks in the ocean.

As a reflex action it comes to my head the jazz, since I consider  this kind of music the best representation of the seduction between the musicians and the public, and also, among people from the same public.

In fact, jazz has that strenght, that potential to create a magic and charming space where it is listened. It delights every single person who allows himself to be bewitched by its melody while is moved in his own thoughts, in his own imagination.

However, jazz’s essence is perceptible just in a context where each detail, each gesture, each look has the jazz’s aroma. I am talking about the Sunset Club of Girona, a particular bar where those people who are looking for the anonymity can hide themselves, but also where those who just want to spend a good time can listen a great live concert.

That is how jazz, as the water between the two mollusks from Italo Calvino, can found a strong bond between two people who didn’t know them previously. An ephemeral tie that is also very intens if we take in consideration its origin, the music.  

But if you don’t belive me, gaze the following photographs that I stole from the amazing jazz club one friday night…

Dead Nature

All object, all daily element, saves himself a beauty hid. To discover it, we have just to play with the point of view that we are accustomed to look our routine surroundings. In this way, we will be able to see new forms, textures and compositions, creating images surprisingly beautiful from common and simple elements.

That is way objects as simple as a red boat can purchase a surprising perfection thanks to the care of its composition in a photograph. In fact, what all photographer looks for his images are innovative frames and different points of view that do not leave impasible the one who observes the photograph.

The Procession of the Virgin of Carmen

 The procession of the virgin of Carmen is, for most of the villages of the Spanish seaboard, one of the most beautiful and ancient traditions that saves our culture. Each 16 of July the villagers get up early to go to the church of their village in order to collect the virgin of Carmen, patron saint of the sailors, walk in procession towards the port of the town and ship the figure of the virgin out to sea while they pay homage with prayers and religious edges. Back to the coast, the villagers wait eagery the virgin to return it to the church and so to end the veneration in the  religious’ precinct.

The village that I chose to realize the report was Cadaqués, a village that shines by its beauty and that is  recognized around the world because it has housed one of the most recognized painters of all the times: Salvador Dalí. That is why that villa still has some artistic atmosphere, some nostalgia of a painter that, probably, will always be remembered among its villagers.