This week we travel to Ecuador to discover the city of Guayaquil, the hometown of photographer Vincente Manssur.
Vincente's work is mostly about street sightings, daily life and simple things. Let's discover his authentic stories of everyday's life in 15 photos in full resolution powered by Prodibi!
EMERGING TALENT Awards Editor’s Pick
Street Photography Awards Editor’s Pick
Interview on Iso 400
The artist we feature today is a versatile photographer, his work is a proof of his ability to range among different genres. Enjoy the interview to the Ecuadorean Vicente Manssur.
LINK: https://www.pellicolamag.com/blog/interview-with-vicente-manssur
Tomado de: http://erickimphotography.com/blog/2012/08/20/10-things-garry-winogrand-can-teach-you-about-street-photography/
“Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.”
“Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the picture as judgment that the photograph is good.”
“Great photography is always on the edge of failure.”
“Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.”
“I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.”
“I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe. And respect for the subject, by describing as it is. A photograph must be responsible to both.”
“I don’t have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.”
“There is no special way a photograph should look.”
Tomado de: http://culto.latercera.com/2018/07/23/le-creas-a-gusto-la-carta-en-donde-sergio-larrain-ensaya-empezar-a-fotografo/
En 1982, el prestigioso fotógrafo chileno que alguna vez recorrió el mundo con su cámara Leica para inmortalizar personas e instantes únicos, escribió una carta buscando inspirar a su sobrino. Autor de libros como El rectángulos en la mano y Valparaíso, en 1959, y gracias a Henri Cartier-Bresson, Larraín entró como miembro asociado de la notable agencia Magnum, donde publicó buena parte de su obra visual.
El juego es partir a la aventura, como un velero, soltar velas. Ir a Valparaíso, o a Chiloé, por las calles todo el día, vagar y vagar por partes desconocidas, y sentarse cuando uno está cansado bajo un árbol, comprar un plátano o unos panes y así tomar un tren, ir a una parte que a uno le tinque y mirar, dibujar también y mirar. Salirse del mundo conocido, entrar en lo que nunca has visto, dejarse llevar por el gusto, mucho ir de una parte a otra, por donde te vaya tincando. De a poco vas encontrando cosas y te van viniendo imágenes, como apariciones las tomas.
Sigue lo que es tu gusto y nada más. No le creas más que a tu gusto, tú eres la vida y la vida es la que se escoge.
Bueno, con esto tienes para comenzar. Es mucho vagabundeo, estar sentado debajo de un árbol en cualquier parte. Es un andar solo por el universo. Uno nuevamente empieza a mirar, el mundo convencional te pone un biombo, hay que salir de él durante el período de la fotografía.
Featuring one shot per photographer, the show includes work by emerging image-makers from all over the world
Work by 120 young photographers from around the world is on show in London’s House of Vans from 10 May – 03 June. Selected from an open call for the Palm Photo Prize, the show features one image per photographer and, say the organisers, “places an emphasis on raw, engaging work”.
The winners will be announced online on 04 June, having been picked out by a judging panel comprising: Karen McQuaid, senior curator at The Photographers Gallery; Joshua Coon, director, content marketing & production at Kodak; Jack Harries, editor at The Heavy Collective; and Andrea Aurland, editor in chief at Huck Magazine.
Palm Studios is a London-based publisher focusing on photography, founded in 2015 by photographer, editor and curator Lola Paprocka. Palm showcases photographers’ work through creative projects, online features, exhibitions, events and book launches.
It was an incredible competition this year, with a high standard of submissions from all over the globe. We received entries from 137 countries.
We are delighted to present the work of our winner Alan Burles and this year's 21 finalists.
Alan has won a Leica Q, a month long solo show at the Leica Studio S in London, a Billingham Hadley Small Pro camera bag and an Angelo Pelle strap. The 21 finalists have all won Billingham accessories, an Angelo Pelle strap and of course a place in the group exhibition at the Leica Café in London.
We hope you enjoy the work as much as we do, and we will see you again in 2019 for another SPi Street Awards!
The SPi Collective
Vicente Manssur is a photographer and creative writer from Ecuador.
His personnal work is about street sightings, still life and everyday scenarios stuck in a pastel universe. He has a very particular eye for detail and to show us a contemplating world where people are wedged in different states.
His photographs seems to tell a story that will never know, who are they, where they going and what’s their goals.. It’s all about that mystery..
Made for hundreds of years, the Panama hat gained notoriety in the US – and around the world – at the start of the 20th-century, when President Theodore Roosevelt wore one as he inspected the progress of the Panama Canal. By the ‘40s-‘50s, the design had transformed into a style statement, thanks to Hollywood. Gregory Peck, Clark Gable, James Stewart, and then the likes of Robert Redford and Sean Connery wore Panama straw hats in renowned films or on and off set, cementing the design’s gentlemanly appeal.
Fast forward to 2018, and the Panama hat still maintains a sense of mystery, despite being one of the most iconic accessories. Two crucial facts – well-known by experts, those who work in the industry, and some fans of the design – continue to remain largely unknown. The first one is the name, which hints to Panama as a country of origin. In fact, these popular hats are Ecuadorian. More specifically, the authentic Panama straw hat and its finest examples come from the Montecristi area and the small town of Pile.
Join Palm* Studios along with some other awesome partners as they host The Palm* Photo Prize 2018 — a shortlisted collection of images exhibited and judged in our gallery space.
Curated by Palm* Studios to just 100 entries, the selected photographs will be on display here at House of Vans London from 10th May - 3rd June 2018 as part of the Palm Photo Prize exhibition.
Open internationally to all photographers, the selection process for the exhibition places an emphasis on raw, engaging work of the highest quality. Winners will be announced online on the 4th June 2018.
Vicente Manssur, Ecuador based photographer, presents his pastel universe, in which heavenly landscapes mix with characters frozen into strange poses. Whether in colour or in black and white, his images pique our curiosity.
Vicente Manssur is a photographer based in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
He works as a creative writer and as a photographer.
“My work is mostly about street sightings, daily life and simple things.
I like to find authentic stories of people or things in everyday scenarios.
There is always something happening.”
D’origine équatorienne, Vicente Manssur produit un travail photographique simple mais à la composition puissante. Son appareil lui permet de capter l’Amérique latine qui l’entoure. Scènes de vies, visages lambdas et objets du quotidiens se nouent pour constituer une trame touchante dans un rendu esthétique résolument pop.
Based in Guayaquil, Ecuador, photographer Vicente Manssur uses his film camera, keen eye for detail, and creative talent to capture the world in a beautiful way. His images often have a minimalist aesthetic. In a similar way to designers who reduce the form in order to find the essence of an object, Manssur captures the substance of the scene through uncomplicated, yet powerful compositions. And the images often seem to tell a story. A toy left in the back seat of a car, the sun bathing the vehicle in natural light. Above a pink sink, two slender hands hover, fragile and almost despondent but also determined and strong.
A bright yellow wall provides the backdrop for a street light; shot during a sunny day, its purpose becomes unimportant, and the object transforms into an urban prop. An image shows a few people traveling on the back of the bus. All of them captured in strikingly different states: sleep, sadness, contemplation, fatigue. Throughout his work, Vicente Manssur seems to effortlessly uncover the beauty of the simple things, and paint stories with a camera.
Las preciosas fotografías que hace Vicente Manssur tienen ese algo especial que hará que te gusten nada más las veas. Sus colores, su composición, su luz, su naturalidad, su sinceridad, su transparencia.