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

Tue Mar 8 20:53:30 PST 2016

You might well be right, I have never been to Cuba. Again, you might well sell stock, but I am not looking for stock when I look at a portfolio, I am looking for something more. It has been a few years since I have seen photographs taken there that do not give me a feeling of Deja Vu. I would like to visit sometime, but more for the music and culture, rather than the photography.
Cheers
Jayanand

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> On 09-Mar-2016, at 07:53, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote:
> 
> 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
>>>>> http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/>
>>>>> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu
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>>>>> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <
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>>>>> YNWA
>>>>> 
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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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