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Photographer: Tatiana Bitir
07 January 2008
06 January 2008
invited guest: Raúl Ortega
Raúl Ortega, photographer from Mexico City was sent on an assignment to the Chiapas region by the newspaper La Jornada in 1994. He was to stay there for just a couple of days to cover the events of the "Zapatistas" uprising against the federal government. But his visit to this region bordering to Guatemala and the soil of the Mayas turned out to be a long-term commitment. Raúl Ortega stayed for almost two years with the people of this region.
I received ten pictures from Raúl yesterday and have been thinking about something to write about them. This is such great photography! To me they belong in a context where you also will find for example Manuel Álvarez Bravo and Graciela Iturbide from Mexico or the Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado. This is no nonsense photography. This is a photographer’s artistic vision and skills serving as a tool to show us something important about humanity. Raúl shows in these pictures something that we all can recognize, things that are important to people: health care, schools and alimentation, to live in peace. We call it human rights. So often denied poor people.
Raúl Ortega was born in Mexico City in 1963. He has been a professional photographer since age 23, working for La Jornada from 1986-2000 and as editor of its supplement foto from 1998-2000. He has also worked with news agencies Reuters, Associated Press, and Associated Foreign Press.
Ortega has exhibited his photos domestically and internationally in approximately 60 individual and group shows. Ortega's images have been published in books, periodicals, and newspapers and are found in museum and private collections.
If you haven’t read the book "De Fiesta" with around 80 photographs by Raúl Ortega and text by Elena Poniatowska, it is something I highly recommend. The book was published by Turner, Madrid in 2003. /Ulf
(Invited by Ulf Fågelhammar)
All photos ©Raúl Ortega
(please click photos for higher resolution)
Sisters
photograph: Jeanne Wells
Only two of the three remain now. And strangely enough it is the same with my own life. This is a cyanotype, made in 2003.
05 January 2008
04 January 2008
invited guest: Filipe Franco
As an artist (painting) I use photography as a work-instrument for my creative process and as a hobby in my free time. Situated in the island of São Miguel, near to Ponta Delgada ( the main city of the Archipelago of the Azores), the beach of Pópulo' is seen as a place for relaxation and pleasure for its population.
Like many others, I too go there frequently to drink a coffee and especially look at the see. In this context, the presented series of photographs is a part of a bigger project ( in construction) that searches to reflect the direct form of the behaviour of people in the presence of the sea- their facial expressions, corporal movements and attitudes.
The developed photographies were taken between 21/04/2007 and 14/12/2007
/Filipe Franco
A quote by Elliott Erwitt comes to my mind seeing these great pictures by Filipe Franco: It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby. It´s a pleasure to see you here Filipe. /ulf
03 January 2008
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