Yañez's land

My Photo scholarship 2011 entry

Spain | Monday, November 7, 2011 | 5 photos

Since I am 14 years old I wanted to be a journalist. Now I know I want to be a photojournalist. To do this, I always had National Geographic as a reference when making bet reporters and photo quality.

The photographic work that I present to this scholarship is a statement of intent. My name is Guillermo Pacheco Rivas, I am 21 years old and I am a journalist. Even before finishing the degree my passion for journalism was supported by the love of the image as a media. I wanted to tell stories with pictures. And I say that is a statement of intent because the landscapes of this project are made ??using analog technology, specifically a Nikon F2 with more than 40 years old. One way to work much slower, synthetic and mysterious than the current digital format.

The story of Felix Yañez deserved this over-exertion. Yañez is a craftsman of 51 years from a small town south of the province of Burgos (Spain), Quintanilla del Agua. Like many other villages are depopulated every year. Looking at the sources of their own childhood and his memories, Yañez has recovered the roots of a world that no longer exists, rural Spain in the mid twentieth century. A country torn by civil war of 1936, no running water, no electricity.

His hands have built a village sculptor prop at 1.1. A new neighborhood in Quintanilla representing the people of his childhood, whitewashed houses, the arcades of juniper, old school ... Reciclyng the traditional materials of the abandoned houses has created a faithful reproduction of a typical Castilian village. Giving his own life to the work, with streets, squares and corners full of memories.