Tag Archive for Photography

Harajuku Studio photoshot #1

January 11, 2011 Photography No comments

Check out my photography blog, Today’s photoshot at Harajuku Studio

Zuco.org becomes DarkBoxNotes.com new blog

March 12, 2010 Photography 7 comments

Thank you for following this blog all this time. As many of you already know, Zuco.org was like a chameleon. It changed so many times since its first moments in 2004. I picked up this name because this is my surname and the phonetic is weird and short enough to make a domain worth it. Zuco.org reflected many changes in my life. Since its first creation it was a place to share my thoughts, experiences and everything that I considered worth mentioning online. I deleted many of its contents during this time, redesigned it, stopped it, and started it again. It changed at the same time I changed my interests and visions of life.
darkboxnotes

Zuco.org until now was a photography blog and I’m spending a lot of time working on this, just because photography is my passion. So I decided to migrate the main purpose of this to a new blog, with the same design, the same ideas, everything is the same. Only the domain changes “DarkBoxNotes.com” This name matches what I’m doing in this blog and reflects better than “zuco” the contents of this blog.

What is going to happen to Zuco.org???

The links work, so for those that link from other blogs, don’t worry all links will work. If you find a broken link, please drop me a line. I’ll really appreciate it.

I will give about 30 days of life to actual Zuco.org and then I will transform this blog in my daily life diary, opinions, thoughts and so forth. It will be the same as it was before it got irradiated and mutated to a photography blog.

About languages, of course I will replay to comments in Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Catalan but the main language will be English. No time to maintain all this stuff in so many languages…

Why the name DarkBoxNotes?

Darkbox means that box that every photographer carries all day long: our loved camera. Usually is dark or even colored as the new Pentax K-X but inside all of them there is the kingdom of darkness. For just a few instant, light passes through the lens and captures unique moments.
Notes because I write about that darkbox in this blog.
Thanks to my friends @papadimitriou, @dannychoo, @tamegoeswild, @tangerinejp, @stevenagata and @Ashuttleworth for their help and suggestions.

Twitter I also created a twitter account for @DarkBoxNotes, please follow it if you found the content of zuco.org interesting.

What is photography?

November 17, 2009 Photography No comments


Photography is the only art capable of capturing the Present from the stream of the river of time; from which we can only grasp the constant flow of Past and Future.

I think that this is Photography. Compared to other arts, Photography is capable of capturing the flying instant, the concept of instant in the time, the fixed and never-changing moment of reality. Photography breaks the stream of the world we live in; it stops the process of mutation and transformation of reality. It lets us open a window to something that is present but that we are not able to capture by ourselves because we are only able to sense the constant stream of the river of time and its main events.

Every time I look at a photo, in that moment I’m looking at something that I will never see again. Something that even being in that moment and in that place, I would have never been able to see it as it is captured, because it is happening or it stopped happening. In the moment something is, it stops being so. The Present does not exist for us, only Past and imminent Future, only a stream. The camera lives in another time, it is born and dies during the moments when light crosses it. After that, the silence. Everything ends and only something called photo is left, something that stores the instant, the invisible moment, but present for us.

Compared to other arts, the Photography is able to play with reality using the reality itself, the world and the universe as they are, seen from one of the unique and infinite possible points of view.

Now I feel Better :)

Exibitions summary – #1

October 15, 2009 Japan No comments

If you don’t know what to do during the following days, or months, I’d like to recommend you the following proposals:

Don’t worry if you aren’t in Tokyo. You have the opportunity to be delighted with Keizo Kitajima both in New York and Tokyo. It’s an photography exhibition about the work and vision of Kitajima during the 1975 to 1991. He had his debut with “BC Street Okinawa” in 1975, then he got the Kitamura prize for his work “New York” in 1983. You can appreciate his shots and his style of this period. It includes the changing of his style while visiting the collapsed Soviet Union in 1991. You shouldn’t miss this opportunity.

You still have time for “the Joy of Portraits” at the Amador Gallery in NY. (around 23 days left). But you should hurry for the exhibit in Tokyo (around 3 days left!!) at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography

Don’t get stressed because you have also other opportunities to appreciate good works, or even to share your point of view about art at the ICC Open Space 2009 (plenty of time left to experience it). It’s a free communication space opened to the public. You have the chance to appreciate some representative works of media art created not only by Japanese artists, but also masterpieces of international artists. The exhibition has an adding: a new space dedicated to the “Art & Science”.

If you are in Barcelona, I really recommend you “endemoniados” of Ricardo Cinalli. You can enjoy a very impressive collection of masterpieces: sculptures, paintings and compositions dedicated to the curves of the human body. Enjoy it at Galeria Mito, at the Carrer Rosselló. But if you are more found of photography, I recommend you to enjoy the works of the Fundació Foto Colectalia where you can see a great collection of good photos from different artists.

If you happen to be in Paris, you can also enjoy Rencontres Internationales 2009, from November 30th to December 9th, at the Centre Pompidou, by the Théâtre du Châtelet. You can enjoy some films and visual propositions. This cultural and artistic platform, gives us the opportunity not only to enjoy but also to take part into the new cinema and contemporary art. This event takes also part into the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid. Check here for more information