Bar Tasende in Montevideo.
Photo: Tasende. Old bar of Montevideo. By: Martin Herrera Soler. Bar Tasende. This non pretentious bar, located in the south-east corner of the Solis theather is a traditional place, where long ago the cultural and bohemian Montevideo would meet up. They became famous with the ‘muzza al tacho’, a pizza doe covered in thick real [...]
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 [...]
Another good reminder to always carry my camera…
Amazing skies photography opportunity in Uruguay and the case to always carry your camera.
Talk to me about commitment!
A true testament of commitment of a Peñarol soccer fan in la rambla de Montevideo, Uruguay.
Featured in The New York Times.
This has been a ‘productive’ week I guess. Today I had the pleasure to see one of my images in the New York Times. I was contacted about a week ago, about doing an assignment for The Times. They were interviewing Carlos Ott in regards to a recent project, Playa Vik, that he completed in [...]
One of my Leica Images published…
A few months back I submitted an image for a charity project driven by the Leica Forum Community. All the proceeds of the book go to the Association for International Cancer Research. The submitted image below was accepted and will be published once the 120 pages book comes out soon. There were many categories, and [...]
Por dos galletas [for two crackers]… [Updated]
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Por dos galletas [for two crackers]… documentary street photography with a Leica M8.
Fishermen in Cabo Polonio, Uruguay
Fishermen in Cabo Polonio, Uruguay – Images by Martin Herrera It’s 6.00am in Cabo Polonio, Rocha, a small beach town in the Atlantic coast of Uruguay. I witness 3 men performing their daily routine. No easy task I have to say.The first lights of dawn are breaking through the doubtful skies, which at times looks [...]
Maldonado – Ruta 12.
Photo: Ruta 12 in Maldonado, the east area of the country. By: Martin Herrera Soler. As the warm weather comes south, I’ve been taking more trips around Uruguay. This last time, I drove along many minor routes that I had never traveled before. Ruta 12, heads-up North from Punta Ballenas (very close to Punta [...]
My gratitude project… Parque Roosevelt.
Parque Roosevelt, Canelones, Uruguay – Images by Martin Herrera Since I started the year, I have been looking for a project that would be a support vehicle to regularly express my gratitude. Sometimes, through the course of my life, I tend to focus on the things that are not working as I would like, forgetting [...]
While my eyes are still fresh…
I am still enjoying this honeymoon of coming to a new place, and being able to be surprised and amazed by all the things different before they become the norm. As much as I would love to be able to have this ability innate no matter where I am (which at times I do), I [...]
Don’t be fooled by the 95…
As many if you know, we are moving back to Uruguay. From a photographic perspective, it is my intention to dedicate the next few years to document many aspects of Uruguay that really stand out to me as I go back an immerse again in society. This is something that I feel I have to [...]
Living green in Uruguay!
As many of you might know by now, Clara, KC and I have decided to move to Uruguay. A big part of this choice relates to the vision of manifesting a life style, where we spend more quality time with Nature (KC has been a big proponent of this initiative – the leash and the [...]
