Elle

Elle Lee.

She came from Korea more than two years ago. She is an event organizer working in London for a Korean company.

Elle enjoys dressing up, are more even if anyone is around taking photos of her.

I took this photo at my place last week.

If you want to see more pics, click here.

Flamenco

Carmen is a Flamenco Dancer.

She was born in Murcia (Spain), now she is living in London for more than 10 years, and dancing around the world with different companies.

She came back from Dubai and asked me for a photo-shoot. We did it last week.

The grip, the feelings, the passion of this music and dance, were what I want to transmit by the photographs.

The flamenco is a dance and a music genre, an interplay of native Arabic, Andalusian, Sephardic, and Gypsy an Cuban cultures

Check more photos here.

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.

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.

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!

New Books Updated

After some days working on wedding reportages, here you can see new photobooks.
I hope you like them.

The Cans Festival

Two weeks ago, the exhibition entitled the Cans Festival had place at the tunnel at Lake Street. Artists from all over the world came to participate on it. But the main representative was Banksy, the most famous English graffiti artist.

Iwent last Friday, just to take a look what those and more artists (anyone who brought a stencil was allowed to add their own design) had been doing during these days. You can see some of the photos I took at flickr.

Red Baloom

I have just uploaded some of new pictures I took in the studio last week.

You will find them at flickr.

Enjoy them!

One more wedding

At five in the morning, you can ask the bride for whatever you want…

This photo was taken two weeks ago in Spain shooting a wedding.
In spite of the long hours of work I can always find the funniest side of it.
You will be able to see more soon on my website. I hope you like it!

Igancio Fortun. Acidic, zinc and light.

If the most important issue in photography is light, also it is for this great painter.
Ignacio Fortún is a Spanish artist (based in Zaragoza). He uses acidic and buril over zinc giving life to his paintings. These elements together work as mirrors reflecting the light.

All his paintings have own life, depending of the light reflected on them, of his color’s temperature, of the point of view, a single painting could be completely different. As an audience, you have to travel into his paintings and feel how a scene could change.
If you want to take a look more of Ignacio Fortún job click here. You will see how much in common with photography it has.