Footprints on the Sand

Photos: My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

daniela_amodio — Mon, 8 Jul 2013 12:22:00 GMT

My name is Daniela Amodio, I'm a Venezuelan 30 years old girl from Caracas, Venezuela. I do work in a software based company as a programmer. However, as much as I work, I always find time to myself in order to get involved into an artistic mood of life. I like to see people in the street to find art in their faces and in their behaviours, trying to find a story behind them and capt their natural state, without any poses. I haven’t studied photography, but since I was a child, my father in which is a great illustrator (skill that I inherited from him) taught me how to manage the colors and light in a composition. So, I would like to learn more and more to become a proffesional, not only for exhibit my pictures, but to tell histories through them and to show how to find beauty in our daily moments. Art is always around us, we just have to pay attention. I heard about the Travel Photography Scholarship from a friend of mine, he and my fellows from work always say that I ended up in the wrong career, and that I should go around the world to take pictures. (That's a lovely idea!). Like I say: If I could stop time everytime I want to take a photograph, I would live in slow motion.

Seashore's Kids

daniela_amodio — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 08:24:00 GMT

I made a trip to the lovely beach Arapito in Sucre-Venezuela, looking for a relaxing morning. But I found something else, someting that cautivated me. Around this beach live some families, their kids study from Monday to Friday, and their weekends are not made for playing.

This families are poor, so this kids spend their ¨Relaxing days¨ selling food for some money to help their families. They are not more than 10 years old.

My trip to this beach became in a reflexive moment, and with my camera on, spent my time taking pictures of them, hopefully to show them later to the public, and try somehow, to get some attention on their way of living.

Photos: My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited - Niños de Costa - Seashore's Children

daniela_amodio — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 02:30:00 GMT