I never smoked cigars in my life. I really hate the smell. But I must admit that there are some charm on it. For photography, it’s a source of expression: body movement, faces and gesture. And there mustn’t exist something better than the first drag after a meal. I just can’t understand how can somebody [...]
About cigars..
To shoot pictures
This is the introductory text of Wim Wenders from his photography book called ONCE. Some of the most inspiring words about photography that I ever seen…
TO SHOOT PICTURES - Wim Wenders
Taking pictures is an act in time, in which something is snapped out of its own time and transferred into a different kind of duration. It [...]
New horizons, old references…
My first live memory about photography was when I was 4 or 5 year-old. My mother took an underexposed portrait of me, with a little spot of light in second plan. Then I asked my sister where this photo was made, and she teased me saying “It was when you were too young, so little [...]
First impressions…
After four years working as a newspaper photographer, making hundreds of pictures everyday, now I realize how I lost my eye.
During this time, of course I developed a lot of important photojournalistic skills: how to work always in hurry and any condition of light, how to choose the better angle, how to behave [...]
