[Leica] Two really nice Spanish photographers whose work I "discovered" today ->Jayanand

[Tina Manley]

I loved Cuba and would go back anytime.  I was taking photos to sell for
stock and photos for myself.  I think you can tell the difference.  The
stock ones are selling very well because everybody wants the cliche photos
that look like "Cuba".  I think if you look far enough you'll find the real
people.

http://tinamanley.photoshelter.com/gallery/Cuba/G0000TudpsyJmsLU/

TIna

On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 8:07 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Luis,
> IMHO, the most difficult assignments in photography are those that take
> you to iconic places or events, because it is so difficult to find
> something new to photograph and show, that has not been done a few million
> times before. Human interaction is certainly one way out, because of its
> innate unpredictability, but when an entire population gets used to posing
> in a certain way, and loses all spontaneity,  it becomes repetitive as
> well. It is definitely is very true of tourist dependant cultures, like for
> example the Masai in East Africa, and I suspect, the Cubans as well.
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On 09-Mar-2016, at 04:38, lluisripollphotography <
> lluisripollphotography at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Jayanand,
> >
> > You mention a very interesting aspect on photography. Many of us we are
> going to events or places to take photographs because there is some event
> that make
> > an interesting subject for a shot, however we are reproducing something
> that it is there, at that moment, except if we capture an exceptional
> decisive moment on the action, we are not creating we are simply copying. I
> think and I try to search on ordinary life, on everyday scenes something
> interesting in the sense that I would like create the even and not
> reproduce an even as it is.
> >
> > I think your observation very interesting on this sense.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Lluis
> >
> >
> >
> >> El 6 març 2016, a les 14:11, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
> va escriure:
> >>
> >> Cuba has been "discovered" some years ago,  and most photographs from
> there show a touristy sameness that is getting monotonous. Time to go to
> other countries, and show your tourist snapshots, before they, too, lose
> their novelty value, like Myanmar or Iran.....:-)
> >> Cheers
> >> Jayanand
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPad
> >>
> >>> On 06-Mar-2016, at 11:51, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Well, as for colors, all the pictures from that exhibition are B&W.
> >>>
> >>> The other one, from Murcia, is in color.
> >>>
> >>> There are many photographs from Cuba these days, but the percentage of
> good ones is not high. These are good, IMO.
> >>>
> >>> Finally, having been born and lived the first 11 years of my life in a
> Communist country, I can assure you that the Cubans look forward to the
> arrival of Starbucks, Safeway, modern cars etc.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> Nathan
> >>>
> >>> Nathan Wajsman
> >>> Alicante, Spain
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> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> On 06 Mar 2016, at 01:23, Frank Filippone <red735i at verizon.net>
> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> No reflection on the exhibit shown, which is quite nice, but any
> images
> >>>> taken in Cuba seem to be winning formula....
> >>>>
> >>>> ......Mind you, I am jealous,,,,,
> >>>>
> >>>> But the place looks like every photographer of people, old stuff, and
> color
> >>>> should go there.... before us Americans ruin the place with Starbucks,
> >>>> Safeway,  B of A., and "modern" color palettes of Gray, Mauve, and
> >>>> Taupe.....
> >>>>
> >>>> Frank Filippone
> >>>> Red735i at verizon.net
> >>>>
> >>>> Alicante has decided to have a photography festival, I supposed
> trying to
> >>>> emulate cities like Madrid and Perpignan. So today I went to see four
> >>>> exhibitions. Two of them were quite indifferent, but these two I
> really
> >>>> liked:
> >>>>
> >>>> http://www.mayoralphotography.com/entre-dos-aguas-2/
> >>>>
> >>>> http://gustavoaleman.net/No-soy-de-aqui
> >>>>
> >>>> Both are the kind of photography I like to do, and the first one very
> much
> >>>> made me think of our own Lluis.
> >>>>
> >>>> Cheers,
> >>>> Nathan
> >>>>
> >>>>
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