Humor is an infallible tool to avoid cutesy in travel photography
Surely you have seen many imitations of the portrait that the great Steve McCurry performed as the young Afghan . Perhaps even you have tried to portray someone with that photo in mind. And it's great if you've learned something in your attempt. But we have proposed that you look towards new horizons.
we show you here three jobs of photographers that have portrayed Greece, the Casa de Campo in Madrid and one of the many cruise ships that sail the seas and oceans. These authors have adopted a point of view that has little or nothing to do with what we find in typical travel photography books. But it is not about copying or replacing your old clichés with new ones. We suggest that you reflect on the way of looking at Emiliano Granado, Txema Rodríguez and Antonio Xoubanova.
Beyond 'Holidays at sea '
The images that come to mind for many of us when thinking about a cruise are those of ** 'Holidays at sea' **. Lots of photos taken on those sea voyages recreate the aesthetics of that television series . To detoxify ourselves, it is worth seeing in detail the project **'Thank God That's Over'** by the Argentine photographer Emiliano Granada.
A work that, as the author himself explains, drinks from the photos that David Foster Wallace portrayed with words in his essay '** A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again' **. Although also from great Martin Parr. Granado captures the passengers and crew of a cruise ship with absolute closeness. Without hiding the dust under the rug. That is why he does not hesitate to frequently use the powerful light of his flash, always fired from the front. If he has marked you you can get a newspaper edition of the report.
Greece is stones, cats and twisted trees.
The zigzag gaze Txema Rodriguez he is usually on the lookout for and captures the details. He, well, he seems to enjoy much more analyzing the part instead of the whole. That is one of the secrets that the photos with which he illustrates a tour of Greece are the opposite of a postcard.
Aesthetically we are left with the homogeneity of its black and white. But what really matters the images of him are that they are truly his . He does not seek to pay unnecessary homage to anyone. When he focuses his attention, and ours, on a stain on a wall, a twisted tree or a hotel mirror, we feel that we have shared his journey. And that is perhaps the most a photographer can aspire to when capturing a journey.
The trip can also be to the corner of your house
Wikipedia says that the Madrid Country House doubles the area of the park Bois de Boulogne, in Paris , is five times larger than the Central Park of New York or 6.5 times larger than London's Hyde Park. But it is much less well known than any of those three sites. Even for the inhabitants of Madrid.
Perhaps that is why the Madrilenian ** Antonio Xoubanova has been exploring it for some time **. He has set out to thoroughly document with his photos that somewhat forgotten corner of the city he inhabits. In his project we usually come across the unusual daily life of those who frequent that space. And it is that the great themes in photography may be just around the corner and not in the antipodes. You just have to really open your eyes to realize it.
A close-up of a stone serves to summarize an entire country