CITYPULSE – Lomography expo

KEVO pictures @ the Opening of the Lomography Exhibit in Santiago Chile

Writing about your own pictures is quite embarassing, it’s like praising your own kids: awkward.

In this case I am taking such risk, because, beside the quality of my work and of those that participated along with me, to be praised is the role of a magazine and  its editor: Citypulse and Mr George Lever.

The pictures featured in the exhibit, taking place in Santiago, Chile, @ the Galeria Moro are the result of a summer trip I took, following a university expedition in Marrakech. While the students, along with the accompanying professors, went from site to site, exploring the traditional building system, typical of the region, I chased my own muse, in search of images.

Morocco was vital, although it was Ramadan time, I was able to go back home with a handbag full of B&W rolls, hence the whole idea was to shoot using only some “extremely affordable” Russian cameras, which made me explain over and over, to my fellow travellers, what was I using and how it worked, because of their unusual look.

Nowadays everyone goes for the HiFi philosophy, but this time I really wanted to find out the unexpected, maybe a handful of missed shots, maybe out of focus or some other troubled results, I wanted to force myself in the situation of not overshootng, although I was quite generous in pressing the shutter release.

KEVO FED 5B and the 50mm, one of the set up I travelled with in Morocco

The process of editing the pictures afterwards brought to the surface a set of negatives that had a quality and a theme as a common “fil rouge”: the movement.

Rather it was a frozen movement or a blurred image of a group of people running, it still had movement as the main subject.

The Moroccan reality and especially Marrakech, is a moving city, where a swarming mass of people are commuting from a corner to the other, but always there, to the extent that, after a few days you’ll be recognized by everyone in the Medina.

Closing this post I wanted to thank again Citypulse magazine, Galeria Moro for hosting the exhibit and the great opening and the fellow photographers that were hosted in the same space:

• Maya Newman
• Edward Olive
• Walter Edwards
• Alba Escayo
• Lionel Muñoz

Stay tuned for the new issue of the Citypulse magazine, available online or as a limited print edition under request.