26 April 2009

Claudio Edinger: From Jesus to Miracle

From Jesus to Miracles, 
-The Hinterland of Bahia-


Bahia is located right in the heart of Brazil. This is not accident. The region carries the emotion and intensity to match the geographical location. Bahia has generated the music of Gaetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil and the literature of Jorge Amado. There one also finds “Literatura de Cordel”, popular stories all written in verse as well as Candomble, Brazil’s own version of the fascinating African religion which, here, mixes African gods with Catholic saints.



The Sertao of Bahia – its hinterland – has been the stage of several conflicts and is plagued by perennial, severe drought. This has created a very industrious and sturdy people who are survivors. Claudio Edinger has photographed this region between the two cities of Bom Jesus da Lapa and Milagres, for two years (2005-2007) and has created an unique body of work, all shot in colour, with 4x5” camera.










Brazilian born Claudio Edinger is the author of several award winning books, including „Chelsea Hotel”, „Venice Beach”, „Carnaval”, „Madness” and „Old Havana”. His photographs have appeared in all major magazines around the world. His works has been exhibited at The International Center of Photography (NY), Centre Gorges Pompidou (France), Photographer’s Gallery (UK), Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo and Museu de Arte Moderna (Brazil) among others. He has been awarded The Leica Medal of Excellence twice (1983 and 1986), The Ernst Haas Award (1990), The Pictures of the Year Award (1996), The Porto Seguro Award (Brazil, 2007) and Higashika Award (Japan, 1999), for Best Foreign Photographer of the Year.
More of Claudio's works you may see on his web site ->

invited by Marcin Górski



12 comments:

jeanne wells said...

What fine work -- and so good to see some large format lens tilt & shift!

Jan Buse said...

Truly amazing images, this is much more than just "pictures". Love it!

lukaszbiederman said...

outstanding pictures !!!!

cafe selavy said...

Great addition to F Blog! Edinger's work arrests one's attention immediately with its supersaturated colors and selective focus his isolation of figures in the frame. Bravo.

Paolo Saccheri said...

very fine images.
thanks for sharing!

Anonymous said...

What a discovery ! One of my 10 fav. of all time !!! Thank you Marcin fot this !

tatiana

LUC RABAEY said...

Amazing, yes! Also because kind of a new formerly approach who is really intriguing. And the soft hue leading us into the story.
Thanks!

Lina Nääs said...

Gosh!

Anonymous said...

wonderful work!

Anonymous said...

wonderful work!

Ioana Moldovan said...

I absolutely love this series and all your work!

Chris said...

This is so very very good!