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

Jayanand Govindaraj jayanand at gmail.com
Wed Mar 9 19:43:23 PST 2016 

Tina,
These are very nice.
Cheers
Jayanand

Sent from my iPad

> On 09-Mar-2016, at 21:04, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote:
> 
> These are some that I took for me instead of for stock.  Deja Vu here, too??
> 
> 
> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/159293969
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> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/159430291
> 
> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/159478126
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> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/159568202
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> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/159569590
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> 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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