Rice and it´s people.

My Photo scholarship 2011 entry

Worldwide | Monday, November 7, 2011 | 5 photos

My passion is to capture a moment and tell the world about it. To transmit a sentiment or a breath-taking landscape. It's also the way I see photography: an art that let's us express the way we look at things. By combining this two concepts it's possible for me to tell the people that this is the world we live in: a place full of beautiful and amazing nature. The land where we have developed our culture, identity and customs, and also a place we share with other species.

My name is Ricardo Sánchez from Nicaragua and here I want to tell a little story about the cultivation of rice in Northern South East Asia and the people who grow it: friendly hill tribes who have mastered the art of growing the rice in the mountains and transformed the natural landscape into perfect-shaped rice terraces. They are Hmong people from Laos and Vietnam. People who have also learn to transmit their culture and traditions from one generation to another.

I love travel photography and I want to learn how to master this amazing art so that I can better share the moments, places and people that I see. I expect to learn not only new photographic techniques, but also explore new ways to see photography. To better understand why I take a certain picture and what I want to mean or tell the world with it. I want to learn the best way to analyze a moment and then capture it. I want to learn where and what my eyes should be looking at so that I can give back not only better pictures, but also to transmit the feeling of what I am seeing.