Mónica RiveiroStrolling through Prague In street photography, when you arrive in a tourist city, there’s an initial impulse: to see everything. From there, if you stay long enough, something more interesting emerges: learning to truly see the city. That’s why, for me, it requires slowing down and tuning in. This time, it was…
The Hidden Danger of Likes Today I want to reflect on something that concerns many photographers: how to find your photographic style without losing your own voice along the way. In other words, listening to ourselves… or stopping ourselves from listening. Because when we take photos, are we really looking inward… or are we thinking about what others expect to see?
Poetry is you. How many folders covered with Bécquer’s verses used to circulate through the high school corridors! Poetry in photography That phrase was almost mandatory on the cover, usually stuck next to some annoyingly persistent little heart. Those were the days! Today I want to talk about something I didn’t know how to name for years: poetry in photography. But let’s…
Charles Bridge: Prague’s Most Photographed Icon Arriving in Prague with a camera is an act of excessive optimism if your intention is to photograph the city as if no one has ever done it before. Photographing windows in Prague, however, wasn’t part of my plan when I crossed…
Sometimes going out for a walk with the camera feels like a chore: familiar streets, repeated faces, corners that seem to have been seen a thousand times. That feeling of frustration doesn’t mean creativity has vanished; it’s just a necessary pause in urban photographic motivation, saturated with images…
PHOTOGRAPHING WITHOUT INTENTION: CREATING YOUR OWN WORLD A window into another world I recently listened to an interview by Tomasz Trezebiatowski, editor of Frames Magazine, with a photographer I hadn’t known before: Yasuhiro Ogawa. And almost from the first minute, he dropped a line that made me raise my eyebrow (the left one,…
"Actually, I prefer black and white. It’s not that I don’t take color photographs, but I’ve realized one thing: color doesn’t quite fit in my world. Black and white gives me a sense of distance—a kind of distance from real life. I believe that distance…"
Gijón Epicenter Photography is the title of the impressive exhibition hosted at the Palacio de Revillagigedo over the coming months. More than just a journey through the..
De dónde surge la idea del proyecto He aquí un nuevo proyecto conjunto de Carlos Conde y Mónica Riveiro. Lleva por título La Barandilla. Está inspirado en nuestros interminables y casi diarias caminatas por el paseo del Muro de Gijón. No siempre tomamos fotografías. También observamos mientras paseamos o descansamos…
In Chris Killip's exhibition in Baltic Flour Mill in the city of Newcastle, England. A few days before visiting a city I look for information about photography exhibitions that might be taking place in a gallery. In this case I was going to the city of Newcastle
