My Photo scholarship 2011 entry
This is a set of photos of the most valuable craft of the town where I was born. It is nice to see that after so many years, this art is still alive, although very few young people decide to involve in this. There was a time when the "rebozo" was a commercial success, but now it is difficult to dedicate to it as a way of life. It is only a matter of love, of passion. Accordingly, wearing it is neither a matter of fashion, but also a matter of affect, of identification. For me, photography is like creating rebozos: There is nothing like taking what nature gives to you and share it to everybody, without adding or sustracting essences by design software or manipulating excessively an image. Photography as art and as a medium for ecologic and social causes is better when you take it from a tradicionalist approach, like craft, not industry.
I take pictures since I was twelve, and was very difficult to me switching from film to digital, not tecnically, but affectually. Now I understand that digital is better ecologically and creatively, if you take it with open mind and innovation. Maybe some of this need our rebozo to survive.
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