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 seasons in 4 instances...

A recent visit to the chapel of St Peter and St Paul in the Greenwich university campus, the old Naval College.

As we left La Paz behind we climbed up to 4852 metres over sea level going past three high altitude lakes. The mind cannot capture proportions so what the camera and/or the eye sees as near in fact is quite far away: if you look carefully there are 2 cows pasturing in the yellow band on the other side of the lake in the second image...

The question of Choice, freedom, natural inclination, pre-emptied behaviour, predisposition, The Light or The Dark, as in the image it is not a path that one can leave, but a fixed track, once chosen it will take us to its destination...

The eyes have it!

I imagined my death this morning: In a car crash or by a bullet. I felt sorry for myself. I cried over my corpse for a while. Soon after I started talking of cows, of the government, of how expensive life is nowadays, And I felt better, a little bit good. I meant to tell you that I am really ill. As if without skin, hurt by the air around, wounded by the sun, by words, by dreams. An annoying devil has climbed on the back of my head and doesn't leve me alone. Ulcerous, rotten, I have to live crawling, on all fours, slowly, any way I can. [Jaime Sabines (1926-1999)]

It was an image that was in the back of my mind and of course, the origin of that deep seated memory is Edward Weston's obsession with textures

Inevitably it is necessary to give a historical perspective of this yearly festival that takes place in the city of La Paz, Bolivia in the first week of June. 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.

Continuing with my Projects series: The Self. I was testing the lights and this was a test shot for another self portrait: a keeper if there was one! The other Self portrait is The Self - 5