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

Wed Mar 9 07:34:22 PST 2016

These are some that I took for me instead of for stock.  Deja Vu here, too??

http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/159293969

http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/159430291

http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/159478126

http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/159568202

http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/159569590

http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/159892015

Tina

On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 11:53 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > 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
> >>>>> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <
> >> http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
> <
> >> http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/>
> >>>>> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <
> >> http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator>
> >>>>> YNWA
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> 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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