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25 de Agosto, Florida, Uruguay
© Flavio Martín Morante_2004_ Nikon N80/ Kodak T-Max 400
Around 10 years ago I spent almost 4 months jumping in the trains to different parts of the outskirts of Montevideo, photographing as a social documentary study the people who uses the only few remaining trains existing in the country as a way to get to the city where their jobs are located. It has been one of the few photographic works I have done with this approach and it has been to me one that I really treasure a lot because it taught me a lot, not only about photography, but about myself and Uruguay. Somehow, it still manages to teach me a lesson.
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© Flavio Martín Morante_2004_ Nikon N80/ Kodak T-Max 400
(For some reason, this photograph has a "brown/sepia" tone on it that is not what I see when I save it on my computer (???)
(For some reason, this photograph has a "brown/sepia" tone on it that is not what I see when I save it on my computer (???)
This week as I am rebuilding my portfolio website, I came across many photographs that for one or another reason (or sometimes without a real one even) did not make what all these years have been part of the folder titled "A Train of Portraits", and the question I made to myself was how on the hel... I did overlook this ones? And the answer comes basically as something that I have come to learn more and more when it comes to photos and its what some people call "marinating", letting some pictures to take time in order to acquire more flavor or to wake up those flavors that were originally there but that for some reason got turned off at the moment.
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Canelones, Uruguay
© Flavio Martín Morante_2004_ Nikon N80/ Kodak T-Max 400
These four images I am sharing today are part of that group of images that never made it out of a contact sheet in 10 years, and trying to be as humble as I can, I have to say that I just love them and wonder how they did hide on an envelope for so long. One thing for sure is that I am happy to re-encounter them.
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Canelones, Uruguay
© Flavio Martín Morante_2004_ Nikon N80/ Kodak T-Max 400
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