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"Untitled"_(Madre e Hija).
San Juan del Sur, Nicaragüa © Flavio Martín Morante_2006
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"Untitled"_ (El Padre y sus Aguiluchos)
Masaya, Nicaragüa © Flavio Martín Morante_2006
There were a lot of interesting conversations last Friday around the subject of portraiture photography. One thing just kept coming to my head over and over that night and it was the quote from Richard Avedon _
"My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph"_Richard Avedon.
and In my case I found out about that 6 years ago, when I did the 2 portraits above and realized that I was not just photographing them but I was creating a record of how I saw and felt some aspects of a country like Nicaragüa. It was my opinion made into a captured image. After that trip, I stopped doing direct pictures of people like I was doing until then (unless it was for work), and I turned the lens directly at me or to what it makes me, and that maybe its the the best answer to the (repeated) question I faced on Friday_ so... where is the people?.
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