364plus1, African-descendants beyond candombe!
A project by Martin Herrera Soler and Daniel Charlone Herrera Escobero (stick holder) | Julio César Gonzalez | Empleado Dirección General de Registros (municipal employee) For the spanish version of the project website including audio interviews, please check here. English version of the website and audio interviews to be available soon. Three centuries ago the first [...]
Carboneras.
Photo: Chair – Carboneras. By: Martin Herrera Soler. Continuing the work of Peñarol, Diego, my partner at Dokumental and I set ourselves to document las ‘carboneras‘. This is a quite large piece of land where once the British would make gas out of coal. It’s right on the coast of downtown Montevideo, overseeing the Rio de [...]
Inaugura 364más1, negros más allá del candombe.
Un proyecto multimedia que propone una mirada al espacio de la colectividad afrouruguaya de comienzos del siglo XXI. Usando como punto de partida conocidos símbolos del candombe dentro de los cuales se circunscribe para muchos el contacto con esta comunidad, 364más1 propone ampliar la mirada más allá de lo manifiesto y cuestiona, quién es la persona por [...]
Inauguración: Diario de un Retrato.
Fecha: 21 de Septiembre en la galería El Subte, Montevideo, Uruguay. [English version below] En marzo del 2010 el joven artista uruguayo-sueco, Esko Tikanmäki, inauguraría en la galería Signal de Mälmo, la muestra “Journal of a Portrait”, experimento multimediático dedicado a la figura de Matti Tikanmäki, su padre, fallecido en 2006. Tres días antes de [...]
Peñarol in book form!
Photo: One of the few young employees in the AFE garage repairing and active locomotive in Peñarol, Montevideo, Uruguay. By: Martin Herrera Soler. There is just something different about seeing your images printed. And when they are printed in a book form, well, then we are talking a whole different deal. Diego and I have [...]
Diario de un Retrato
A partir de hoy comienza el proceso de creación del proyecto ‘Diario de un retrato’. Dos fotógrafos y una curadora estarán trabajando a lo largo de los próximos meses sobre el material que Esko Tikanmäki ha colectado y creado a lo largo de más de tres años, sobre Matti, su padre. El proyecto cuenta con [...]
La Melaza
Foto: La propuesta de La Melaza para este año incluyó una agrupación de vientos y tres personajes en zancos que cerraban la formación de la comparsa. Photo: The proposal of La Melaza for this year included a group of winds and three characters in stilts that closed the formation of the comparsa. Historias de Amor y [...]
Collective Dokumental recognized in Brazil.
Photo: The bar. One of the many patrons that frequents the neighborhood bar on a regular basis. Founded in the early days of the Peñarol, this place remains an central element of social life in the area. Montevideo, Uruguay. By: Martin Herrera Soler. The collective Dokumental (Diego Vidart and Martin Herrera) was recently recognized as one [...]
Peñarol
A place where past and present coexist in a singular and contradictory way (by Diego Vidart & Martin Herrera). Photo: 12.50m. The british arrived to the area in the 1890s and purchased 14 hectares to establish what is today the Peñarol neighborhood, in Montevideo, Uruguay. Over one hundred years later, the train system is partially abandoned [...]
Socialite… the common thread!
As I continue to look at my work and focus on the kind of images I have been publishing under the ‘social’ subject, the thread becomes all that much clearer. The situation repeats it self over and over. I (or most of the time we, Clara and I) get invited to some sort of social [...]
Featured in Leica Fotografie International – LFI.
I was browsing LFI (the independent Leica magazine) ‘mastershots’ for the Leica M9 category, in my iPad when I came across one of my Havana, Cuba images. I was very excited to see that it had gotten selected, along a set of wonderful images from other photographers. The mastershots images are submitted by readers and selected by [...]
Featured in Photoshelter Photographers of the Month.
One of my recent images from my travel and documentary work on Havana, Cuba (Revolución es… | Revolution is…) got featured in Photoshelters photographers of the month section. Very exciting! For those of you who are not aware, Photoshelter is a web service for photographers that it’s by far the best alternative to host your [...]
India… an experience I can only begin to grasp.
This is a photographic travel log sharing my experience of a twenty days trip in India with documentary travel photography of Varanasi, India (Asia).
Yemanjá, the Goddess of the Sea.
Every February 2nd, hundreds of thousand Uruguayans arrive to the beaches to celebrate the goddess of the Sea – Yemanjá (or Imanja). The city flow gets altered, and the coastline it’s transformed by the celebration, which includes music performers, as well as a high number of worshipers that come to the to sea to share [...]
Candombe…
Fully dressed comparsa during Las Llamadas de Otoño (the autumn calls). Banderilleros performing their magic against the setting sun. It’s been close to a month since we got to Uruguay and yet, it seems like every day we are running errands related to our move. Every time we manage to finish one, two show up. [...]
