My Photo scholarship 2010 entry
Argentina | Monday, October 4, 2010 | 5 photos
I think about this scholarship and tremble…
My desire to deserve it keeps me awake.
I don’t want to wake my family up. This night and silence belong to me
Turning wardroves over, searching through the attic, looking for negatives, trying to make my old slide projector work… in the dust I look for the exact image that would represent me, and that would be my passport to this amazing opportunity.
I have spent 8 years isolated in a farm in the Pampas.
Books and photography kept me company, with stolen hours in an improvised laboratory
No power source, no TV, no telephone, and no internet available. Films were developed and pictures were copied until the battery was over or someone calling “mama” interrupted me.
I have a look at travel magazines and I eagerly read NG articles. Almost everything wakes up my imagination and makes my soul fly for a while taking me out of this quiet pond that keeps me on the side of the road...
Now, I do not live in isolation anymore, I can enjoy technology privileges, I have changed my developing fluids for a notebook.
I am looking for a second chance to live the experience of transforming my personal point of view in pictures that others may cherish, criticize, or use for whatever their personal journeys may need.
Traveling, watching, smelling, talking, listening, discovering the exotic and the mythical, the ordinary, the picturesque, the hidden magic, the beauty in simple things, guessing what others see, observing animals in their environment…
Argentina, my country, is full of contrasts, a complex reality in many levels, unattended social complaints, strikes… But it also has hidden stories of ordinary people who want to found their very own small company, or women like me, who knit dreams of adventures while cooking in their kitchens, waiting for that day when they are finally given to us as a present.
You, NatGeo photographers, have the best job ever! And I would be really thrilled to share this privilege with you.
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