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a poem - Birth of an insurrection against profanes gods

I opened my heart with a silver knife
let my blood pray to evil gods
let my sins clean confused hands
and dreamed deep into purple nightmares
in whose lands
there won't be sunrise to forgive me
either no hands to warm my pain

Poor my penitent soul,
sleeping in unknown regions
will face greedy heavens
and will curse their sacred power.
Carlos Lopez 2010

Photographs that inspire me.

Everybody has his own heroes and paradigms, from family, work and pop culture icons, everybody always admire someone, his work or personality. If you say no, "I just explore my inner world I dont need to see other people work" you are a liar and stupid. The great masters admired older great masters and always has been like that.
When it is about artist, it is hard for some admit theirs influences because everybody want to be original, the first one!. From my side, today I am sharing with you some of the photographs that made a big impact in my life and inspired/push me as a photographer to keep trying new things and explore /see the world in a different way.
One of favorities from all the time: Jan Saudek: the photo of the hands, so simple, so tragic and so many ways to be interpreted.

a review: Samsung NX200

Recently I have got the new camera from Samsung, the Samsung NX 200 and this my personal review/opinion about this camera.
So let's start:
Presentation. The camera comes in a nice elegant black box:
Important technical spec, at least for me: 20.3 megapixels (5472x3648 aspect ratio of 3:2). RAW files although they are like 40mb each :( ISO up to 12 800, adjustable in 1/3 and 1 steps. 7 frames per second Spot metering, beside multi and center weighted. Manual control in speed and aperture, beside shutter, aperture priority and program. Color space Adobe1998 and sRGB. Custom and manual white balance. Bracketing. Manual focus. 1st and 2nd curtain flash synchronization.
What I like is first resolution and all those "pro" options in a compact size. Is not a point and shoot, although you can use as such if you choose to use just the automatic options but if you want professional capabilities and have real control over the image you want to capture this camera is for you.
What lac…

Joel Peter Witkin

Currently there is an exhibition of photographs of Joel Peter Witkin in Brno house of arts as part of the project Decadence now! which take place simultaneously at the Rudolfinum Gallery in Prague. This is the first time I have the chance to see a complete exhibition of him, so kind of a dream made reality plus the fact that next day after the opening there was a small presentation about his work with him in person!
I saw his work first time in a classroom back in 1997 in college and immediately I liked his work. Those dark photograhs showing deformed people, corpses and all what was outside the "normal" but in such a way that you could see and feel the complexity of live. The impression of his work was such that one of my series during college, influenced by his work, was about death and respect to the animals we use for our feeding (Animals of the paradise) with which I got a very good qualification. :-)

The photographs of Witkin are powerful and disturbing. They have …

In Full Spectrum. Photography 1900-1950 from the Collection of the Moravian Gallery in Brno. 2nd part.

The Avant-garde — Abstraction and the New Objectivity
The “New Photography" took shape slowly throughout the 1920's. At ﬁrst, Constructivism and the New Objectivity prevailed, with Surrealism, their irrational opposite, following later. At the end of the decade, individual styles blended into a single whole at the Film and Foto exhibition in Stuttgart (1929). It became clear that common to all the individual paths was “non-art", a trend associated with respect for pure (non-manipulated) photography portraying reality sharply and in detail. Through this, New Photography deﬁnitely separated itself from the approach before it, which had been typiﬁed by misty hazes and spectacles in light.
Detail, only a few years ago deemed incompatible with a work of art, had returned to centre stage.
The New Czech Photography exhibition, based on the Stuttgart model and organized by Alexander Hackenschmied, was held in the Aventinska mansarda, Prague in 1930. It was also the premiere of t…

A Brno girl 15 - Mischelle

This oportunity is for Mischelle, one of the few girls I photographed that like metal music as much as me. She was great and had something different as she is not the typical model. Look at them and tell me if you don't agree with me.

at the end the one chosen for my series of portraits Intimacy is this.

An interview: Max Cabello, Peruvian photographer.

Max Cabello, is a Peruvian documentary photographer. Finalist of the Leica Oskar Barnak Award 2014 with his series about Chunguis, a small village in the Peruvian Andes severely affected by the terrorism in the 80's. Founding memeber of the photo collective Supay fotos in this interview from 2012 he share some insights about his beginnings and motivation.

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