Category archives: Thoughts

A newspaper is being born

Lord, forgive me for the temerity and then, before anything else, please send me a photo editor, an InDesign expert, a layout guru… Well, Eugene Smith would do. Thanks!

Smith and Stockholm

My thesis was to prove that, despite the many times it has been said, Smith is not the father of the photo essay.  3000 words later, I am not so sure about it anymore. Could I be going through symptons… continue reading »

Enjoying the acrobatics

I am slowly walking my way out of illiteracy. Yes, illiterate is how I’ve felt from the moment the MA classes started and I realized how little I know about photography. And, as there is only one way to go… continue reading »

General strike and the difficulty of photographing demonstrations

A priori, any public demonstration -lots of people on the streets showing strong emotions against something and usually not concerned about being photographed- is the perfect place to take some good images. However, every time I set out to do… continue reading »

On ethics and things not going quite as we thought

Steve McCurry is coming to Tenerife! That’s exceptionally good news for us people living in a small island in the middle of nowhere, where this kind of events is not that usual. Two things in my head right now: McCurry’s… continue reading »

No photo and yet a great photo adventure

Yesterday, as I got home, I wrote: Close to tears, that’s how I am feeling. Photography has given the most wonderful day I could think of. One day later, I keep looking at Arnold Newman’s photos trying to figure out… continue reading »

Believing

One of the reasons I joined this MAPJD course is because I needed directions on learning how to construct a story. I know that the bits and pieces of the first few assignments are supposed to lead me towards exactly… continue reading »

What’s the need for images?

Something that happened to me a couple of days ago got me thinking hard on what’s the real need for images. I got contacted by a press person from the Spanish Basketball Federation to do the pictures of a game.… continue reading »

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