I did the portrait of musician and poet Víctor Obliols, also known as Víctor Bocanegra, for his last book "Sacrilegis".
New portrait: Marcio Scavone. Portraying the portraitist /
I had the chance to do a portrait of my good friend Marcio Scavone, great brazilian photographer.
In doing his portrait I've tried to follow his wise advices. As he once said: "Todo retrato é um autorretrato" (every portrait is a selfportrait).
Muito obrigado mestre!
An afternoon with Marcio Scavone /
I've spent a nice afternoon at my friend Marcio Scavone's place, at Alto da Boa Vista, in São Paulo. We've been talking about life and future projects and looking at lots of books and pictures. Talking and learning. Great time.
The picture was shot by his talented son Lorenzo Scavone.
Featured at "Cada día un fotógrafo" (A photographer a day) /
Luis Martinez Aniesa's blog "Cada día un fotógrafo" is a complete and useful database of photographers from all times and all around the world.
It's been a pleasure to be featured in such an interesting bible.
Don't miss it: Arvo Pärt - Piano and chamber music /
Nibius has launched the album Arvo Pärt, Piano and chamber music, featuring Lluís Claret, Pedro Piquero and Gerard Claret. The booklet contains a portrait I did to violinist Gerard Claret some time ago.
Beautiful music played by wonderful musicians. Highly recommended.
IPA 2016. International Photography Awards /
My photography "Cellphone love" has received a Honorable Mention at IPA 2016, in the "Family of Man - Love" section.
Walking around Paris Photo 2016 /
We've been visiting Paris Photo fair last week. Lots of wonderful works.
I met my good old friend Iatã Cannabrava at his Livraria Madalena booth.
I also had the chance to talk to french photographer Jean Claude Pondevie, whose work I admire.
Sculptor Pep Codó, new portrait by Toni Ricart /
I've been shooting a portrait of the catalan sculptor Pep Codó at his workshop in La Floresta (Barcelona), surrounded by his fascinating masterpieces.
Pep Codó is one of the most solid and precise bodies of sculptural works produced in this country in recent years. Maria Lluïsa Borràs coincided with this in a text includet in a 1999 catalogue:
- “In the course of time, sculpture has opened itself to a thousand different modes of expression and is exhibited as a simple object or a complete installation. Pep Codó insists on working stone, Ulldecona or Calatorao stone, evoking the most primitive and ancestral essences, perhaps even pre-Columbian art, with a singular will to swim against the current and delve into the remote origins of sculpture in order to be able to project his work with full knowledge of the cause, to increase it and improve it for the future.”
NEW PORTRAIT FOR THE "MUSICIANS" SERIES /
Violinist David Fonseca, third in a family of excellent musicians
New portrait. BACK TO analog PHOTOGRAPHY /
Joan Ricart shot with Hasselblad 500CM, and Kodak TX400 film