From my experience in Panama, 'men' ride horses. It is very rare to see a Panamanian Woman riding a horse in the Highlands of Boquete. For the working class horses are used for transportation, to herd cattle, and to go in to town for a brew with his friends. Most working class woman don't aspire to those activities.
In the city where the 'money' horses are, woman own and show their horses. So when I found this picture on 'Panama America' I just had to post it. It is part of a collection on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Panama City. If you are in Panama City during this time please try to support the Museum. Thanks!
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The exhibition is being presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art and will last until October 3, Tuesday to Sunday.
Sandra Eleta not believe that there should be a separation between art, information and reality, since all can coexist in the same image, though she prefers to be on the side of the fence where his heart, because that's where you feel better.
This Panamanian photographer, who enjoys wide international recognition has been done with the help of some colleagues, gathering 40 years of his work, which has been divided into seven trials are being exhibited from Thursday this week at the Museum of Art Contemporary (MAC).
The presentation of the "Sandra Eleta Photographic Retrospective" is the closing of his photographic life stage, so says the artist who understands this sample as a natural cycle. As there are different stages in the life of a human being, nature and history, this retrospective likewise meets the end of an era, he explains.
The photographic exhibition comprises 60 works collected under seven themes or photo essays: Portobelo, Embera, Bondage, The Peasant, Grandparents, The Ways of the Piely Cuba. They register people, landscapes and moments that have captured Sandra Eleta for his work and go through different ends of our country and the world. Together they form an emotional poetry and aesthetically perfect.
How comes the idea.Sandra Eleta recalls that he asked his friend Gustavo Araujo (RIP) who printed some pictures of different tests to feel better the relationship between them.
He replied that he felt really, but he had left the profession of photography by the artist, but smiling, told him not to go crazy, as soon receive a surprise. Suddenly, Araujo took him all his photographic equipment and a darkroom set up in the tank from the house of Sandra.
Rose then introduced him to Cromwell, a young full-bright scholarship of living in Panama and from there began to take shape as can be seen today in the MAC.
Photo of Sandra's work is universal Eleta, it comes to the senses of all the world, although she cautions that this retrospective is addressed to "to whose eyes and heart to know how to look."
And this does not seem to be a sentence brought by the hair, since the images are displayed on two floors of the MAC rather than portraits of people, are portraits of souls.
Is that the picture of Sandra Eleta interrelate is characterized by people with things and landscapes, creating a very strong and dense symbolism, but also simple. Its people and their scenarios speak the universal language of feelings. This is where lies the nature of his art, finding the essence and meaning of things.
Lola Garrido, renowned art critic and collector of photography of Spain, describes it: "People who go through the subtle and experienced eye of the artist, become temporary and atmospheric portraits. She is able to use your eyes as a sounding board for their feelings, without resorting to tricks for a simple, pure and universal shape around him in a faithful, but subjective, standing very close to utopia cinematic immediacy. "
Selection: The choice of the 60 images that make up the hindsight of 40 years of seeing the world through his lens, was a work originally made the artist herself with her cousin Aurora Fierro in whose gallery, Photo Centre, the first picture gallery in Spain in the 70s, was where Sandra Eleta made one of his first exhibitions.
German corresponded Carmen finally serving as curator, who spoke of the immensity of the activities of Sandra and said the photographer "has angel, has the gift to make people open."
Despite Destination. Sandra Eleta long way still has that concern it is innate, so do not discard the idea of returning to Cuba to finish her photo essay on "When the Saints down."
He says not really knowing what to do after this show and not the restive, as the stream of life has always been able to take unexpected places.
"I'm sure that still surprises await me on my way," he predicts.
Do you think? Apart from the technical side what does the picture of yesterday, 30 years ago for example, who is not now?
The photograph of yesterday had a photographic task that was like a ritual .. my first teacher, Carlos Montufar, was a person dedicated to their craft with almost religious fervor. We spent hours in his laboratory with the chemical smell and a firm determination on my part to discover the secrets of the magical alchemy to see appear, see images emerge from the liquid chemicals, I still wonder.
t's like attending a birth ... aside from this ceremonial rite that has the analogue photographic endeavor, the result images, at least for me, compared to digital photography is almost indescribable ... photography is a presence of negative an aura. When properly processed black and white, with no digital photography. It may have more versatility, but never the "aura" of a good analog picture. Finally, comparisons are always odious ...
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