As an amateur I take photographs.
Born in Guatemala, raised in Brazil, I lived many years in Europe as well, and now in Canada. My vocation is in teaching and school administration.
For photography I have been inspired by great names. I have had correspondence with several of them. I thank all of them for their kind attention. They teach me constantly with and through their work.
I do colour and monochrome. “Black-and-white photographs offer a beautiful and often abstracted view of the world. The photographers who create them work tirelessly to craft their image into an emotional expression; a vision that resonates with viewers and sends them away with something more.”
“The real challenge is to be able to communicate in grays, whites and blacks the feelings that come over you when you were standing in full color”
- David Ashcraft.
Even more so: you discover you are able to communicate something more, sometimes totally different, then what you got when you stood in front of your subject in colour and real life.
Talbot said in The Pencil of Nature: “a casual gleam of sunshine, or a shadow thrown across his path, a time-withered oak, or a moss-covered stone may awaken a train of thoughts and feelings, and picturesque imaginings”. He said this of his pictures “transformed by the camera. Reduced from three dimensions down to two and then written in the brownish tonalities of his process” his photographs “seem both explicit records and works of feeling and perception.” (Turner, History of Photography, p.29).
“An interaction between things of the material world may gain a new meaning when passed through the camera. That meaning comes in part from the selection by the photographer of what to include and part from the viewer and his or her association with the subject of picture” (idem).
My medium is film and digital. I sometimes also mix both. I think the process is a medium towards the result. The process is not the goal and end. The result is what you see, which may be different from what I see. Thank you for looking at my visual expressions, I wish you an exciting stroll through imagination.