World Press Photo 2009

Polish independence day 11th November.

Today in Poland everyone is resting, travelling or having fun with family and friends.

And as a Krakow citizen I did the same.

Morning for ironing and solving some computer problems.

And afternoon for going to World Press Photo in Krakow.

http://www.worldpressphoto.org/

The annual exposition that really impresses me. Last year I was there as well and I have to say that this year the level is awesome as well!

Anthony Suau and his pictures related with the American stock market and the feeling of the economic crisis.

Brenda Ann and her pictures of a 7 children family mother raising them with not so many resources.

Lissette Lemus and her impressive pictures of people killed in "El Salvador" by mafias.

Chen Qinggang and Bo Bor, showing us the recent earthquake disaster in Beichuan city, China, where many people died and many other ones lost their entire property.

Sebastian D'Souza and his collection of pictures of Mumbai (India) railway station's masacre, with 58 people dead.

Olivier Laban Mattei and the consequences of the cyclone in Burma...

Walter Astrada and his portfolio of pictures related to Kenya and the violence nowadays...

Justyna Mielnikiwicz shows her view of the Georgian-Russian conflict of the last year.

Pep Bonet gives to the exposition the main picture (seen on the tickets), with a transexual guy from Honduras, giving the view of how they earn money with prostitution.

Carlos Cazalis analyze the number of homeless people in Sao Paulo, giving an interesting view of where they sleep and take shelter from the rain.

Alexander Taran gives us some images about the 1920's and 1930's Russian style of fight called Sambo, original from USSR but extended worldwide nowadays...

Steve Winter and his snow leopards also are in the exhibition.

And some others are also there with many different kind of pictures.

I really have to say how impressed I am after that exhibition. The pictures are gorgeous in quality, but not only that, also the moments captured and feelings that the camera does not give to us but only the good photographers do, are there.

Some pictures of the exposition:

(Coming soon)

If you have the exposition nearby and you like photography, do not hesitate about going!

It is really worth it!

Greetings!

Photo-session in Krakow

Sunday, a bit tired and not fancying to do so much.

My flatmate and me decided to spend some time shooting in a pretty new studio in Krakow.

Tools weren't the best ones, but we had fun anyway...

P.S. A picture of mine could be watched on my facebook profile...

Photo-Weekend in Barcelona with Dorothée.

As the title suggests, I'm going to talk about my last weekend in Barcelona, the last step for coming to Krakow where I'm at the moment as Erasmus MSc. student.
On Friday 24th of October I flight at 8:10am from Asturias airport to Barcelona airport. It was 1h flight and I had slept 3 hours the night before. I was with Gelo, having some drinks until late.

At 9:30 I was travelling towards Barcelona center by train. I had the map and the indications of Dorothée, my friend who is working and living in Barcelona. She works for Erai (Enterprise Rhône-Alpes International www.erai.org).
It was quite intuitive to get the place where she was working, but a bit tiring because I was carrying with my one-Krakow-year-luggage. I left the luggage there and I went alone with my camera to Park Güell.

As you can see, there was a nice weather and it was plenty of people. Nice place to visit if you go to Bcn.

My friend and me are just initiated in the great world of the photography,and this weekend was the first one for both os us using a tripod.

We went out to a pub called "Quilombo" with live music. At first time, there was an argentinian guy playing songs with his guitar and singing quite well.
We were almost alone with two more couples and we had a good time talking about her trip to Perú. Lucky her...
The flatmates came and joined us in our small table. In 2 hours since we arrived the place was crowded, many people was singing and some other people were shaking cans and feeling the rhythm. Just in this moment we decided to go home for sleeping a bit before my departure.

I slept 3 hours. I could have slept one more hour because the hour was changing this day and I realized when I arrived to the bus station (Barcelona Nord).
I seemed like I was the only one who didn't know that the time had changed.
I got the bus and I slept a bit, getting Girona airport sooner than I expected...

At first time I had an hour delay in my flight and I decided to take it easy. I sat down and I just chill it out. Having slept 3 hours, my body was expecting me to let hime sleep more hour but I had to be aware of the check-in time.
I decided, finally, to wait for the queue and check-in and, as I supposed, my luggage was 4Kg heavier than it was allowed, and I had to pay 10€ per kilo, so as you would have done, I take clothes out and I started to dress myself up and to
become a onion with 2 or 3 layers...
When I eventually checked in, I went to the bathroom and... What a surprise! One more hour delay in my flight.
I was in Girona airport and I had to wait for 3 hours until my flight had departed, then I decided to take a coffee and to watch a Dexter's 3rd season episode I had in my hard disk.


I strictly recommend this serial. Could a psycho be a cop?

When I flew, I was in Katowice airport, and I got in a car of my lovely fly company Wizzair and I got Krakow at 15:45 more or less.
Alejandro was supposed to be there but because of my delay and some misunderstandings we didn't meet. I had to get home on my own and hopefully there was someone in the flat, Anita, my new flatemate as Bartek, Aga and Alejandro.

The life in Krakow has just started...