And more cellphone photos



Fake entrance (it is a painting)

Cellphone photos

More images taken with my mobile phone.

Main square monument. Clermont Ferrand. France.

a Brno girl 23 - Pavla

Pavlina.

Intimacy v 3.1

The following images are based on my series Intimacy.  The drawings on them are indeed scratches and I did them because these prints did not come out as I had expected and I am not into throw prints to the garbage.  I had this photos stored approximately two years since I print them because I knew I had to do something with them, but I did not know what.

Sometimes, you may have random ideas in your head but from there until make them reality may a take a while. Ideas and inspiration are just a small percentage of the creative process, the rest is real work, take the brushes a start to paint, grab the clay and start to shape it or take your camera and go out to take photographs and from there look at your work and redefine it. It is normal that you start with idea A and during the process it evolve to B and you may finish with C.

With these photographs my ideas ranged from cut them all in small pieces and make some kind of collage to make a single image-portrait, kind of Frankenstein, or to paint them, get some dry flowers and photograph them all together. At the end I went for something more simple as drawing on them but with a cutter.

 

I wanted to give them some mystery with symbols and texts that are related to my life experience. Saying that, you as spectator may have a different interpretation than me of for example of the spiders in the parachuting which is fine for me. In anyway, with each image there was a basic idea that carefully I had to polish before I start the scratching because I cannot undo a scratch! With some photos the drawing was fast but others few it took me up to two days before I could say it is completely finished. As I said, few moments of inspirations, longer periods of hand work.

 

Some of these photos did not pass my final selection to Intimacy series. Therefore in some way I am "recycling" images that I like a lot but otherwise would have finished buried in my archive. After all, photographs are to be seen. Don't they?

I think, this is something that actually everybody should try with prints that don't like or did not came out as you wanted. I mean, instead of throw money (prints) to to the garbage, give your photos a second chance and make a piece of art with them. 

Underground black metal concerts...

I have posted some photos from my archive in my facebook page, images from 2003-2005 when I used to work for a national newspaper back in Peru.

In those days I was as well documenting metal concerts, specifically underground metal concerts. Metal music and all its sub-genders are still quite unknown in the mainstream in Peru therefore if we mention black metal or death metal most of those bands play in small pubs in the outskirts of Lima.

These images are from those extreme genders, black metal and death metal as you can see by their outfits but despite it may look like very dangerous and aggressive people, in fact, in  these concerts the people were more calm than in others I have been, they were more in their own world screaming the songs and moving their heads up and down. Nobody minded I was photographing them.
Well, enough words, enjoy them:

Nahual.

a poem - Bitch

I am the one
whose beautiful smile
could not conquer your heart
and whose black hands
failed to scratch your skin.

I am the one
who in silent anger
proclaimed you:

Whore!

My profaned muse
let the red wine unite us in eternal lust
and lead our hopeless souls
to a painful ecstasy.

You, my purple desire,
with your bruised lips
lick my tears and tired body.
 and by the end of the day
with your disgraced hands
bless me.
                                                           Carlos Lopez, November 2012.

The bracelet. 2001. ©Carlos Lopez

Art in the streets of Brno

Currently under the main station of Brno has been installed a series of artworks as part of the project called Galerie Myšina in which they make the street an art gallery. I like idea and although is not new is good that someone decide to use the dark walls of the corridors under the station and put some color on them.
The project this time presents artists from the faculty of fine arts of the Brno university of technology and from the Escola Massana University in Spain so is nice to see artworks from international artist.

a Brno girl 22 - Marketa V.

Marketa, pretty common name here. :D

a Brno girl 21 - Marketa F.

Marketa, from Brno. Enjoy it.

 

An interview: Miguel Jose Flores, Peruvian photographer.

Miguel Flores started as photojournalist to become then a fashion and advertising fotographer and release all his energy and creativity. Based in Lima he share today with us some of his thoughs and story. Enjoy it.

a Brno girl 20 - Martina