Your guide through the everyday and the unexpected

I have been watching this film tonight. Presented by Martin Parr and Erik Kessels.

A collection of pictures used on photo cards, commercials and others… taken by anonym photographers.

It is a curious film that worth be watched. Just click here.

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Annie Leibovitz. A Photographer’s Life, 1990-2005

I went last week to the National Portrait Gallery to see Annie Leibovitz’s exhibition. It includes over 150 photographs (taken from 1990 to 2005). The exhibition threads the two sides of Leibovitz’s work chronologically and creatively, the artist’s private life and the backdrop of her public image as one of the world’s best-known portrait photographers.

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What I really enjoyed at the exhibition was I did not only features her assignment work, but her personal photography. As she said: “I don’t have two lives. This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it.”

I spent almost an hour at looking Leibovitz’s personal photography documents scenes from her life, including the birth and childhood of her three daughters, vacations, reunions, and rites of passage with her parents and extended family.

I strongly recommend it.

Moodstream

Getty Images is one of the most important stock photography in the world.

It has just launched Moodstream, it does not search the pictures depending on key words, but depending on feelings and states of mind. It is based on an easy menu where you can choose among parameters such as happy/sad, funny/serious, calm/lively… then it will give you an amount of photographs, clips and music.

Try it, do not miss it!

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After holiday…

I am back in London again after almost one month holiday.

I have been doing the “Camino de Santiago”, an old pilgrimage route; cycling during two weeks, meeting people, feeling how far you body and your mind can go. So far one of the best experiences in my life, I really recommend it.

It is time now to start working and have fun with friends. And enjoying this weather, of course!

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