The Embassy of Brazil in London and the Association of Cultural Attachés of Latin America, Spain and Portugal, in partnership with Itaú BBA and People’s Palace Projects (Queen Mary University of London) have selected the image above as one of 30 for the prestigious VIA ARTS PRICE 2018. The exhibition will be open to the public between 14th December and 31st January, Monday-Friday (10am-6pm). At Sala Brasil Gallery 14 – 16 Cockspur Street, SW1Y 5BL Hope to see you there! Javier

I was captivated by the cloud formation here photographed when on a short costal walk in Lanzarote

We were 4 photographers from Latin America at the Latin American Salon: yours truly, Diego Echevers Torrez with a collection of outstanding portraits, Rosa Gauditano's reportage on Luiz Inácio Lula and the 70's Brazil; and Andrés Rozo Samer's experimental abstractions.

The first photograph of the new year using a very small set of lights (Emart ?)

These artichokes were in the vegetable garden of The Pig at Bridge, Kent. A fab hotel and restaurant with a kitchen in the vegetable garde.

Inevitably it is necessary to give a historical perspective of this yearly festival that takes place in the city of La Paz, Bolivia. The celebration transforms and stimulates the social life of La Paz every year, emanating from a particular way of understanding and living Andean Catholicism. The Parade begins with a procession through the western part of the city. This procession is central to the event, involving 40,000 devotees who dance and sing in an offering to the patron saint. The dance has a sacred significance for the sixty-nine fraternities involved, which are greeted in the streets in a euphoric atmosphere where the music of 7,000 musicians resonates. It is so owe inspiring that it is rightfully a UNESCO Wold Heritage event (Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity). The image venerated with dance and music is believed to have arrived in the city at the founding of the convent of the Mothers of the Sacred Conception on the 8th of December 1663.

On a side street, an eye catching graffiti in Folkestone old town

Although there are now many other cemeteries around the city of La Paz, Cementerio Central is the iconic place open to all and there seems to be a space for everyone in spite of the passage of time.