Images Paloma Mora, a window to the world that we would like to know
Take the bags, throw the dirty routine of this city, a boat ride to see the world with your own eyes and take pictures to make testimony: that all the work we wanted to take some time.
That fantasy acunan many but never dare to meet is that the Mexican photographer Paloma Mora has adopted as its modus vivendi. Originally from Mexico City, just over a year saw an ad in the newspaper which asked staff to take photos of passengers of the vessels that are full months in leisure travel.
"Not what I thought. I said let's go. This work has been a blessing, a dream fulfilled, "he says. Their adventures in three continents decided to build an exhibition and sale of photographs that remained only a weekend in an old house of the Roma, but that may be partly on their website, www.palomamora.com.
In an interview with La Jornada, Paloma tells how this project was unique, both in life and artistic expression, and as globetrotters reflects on themes such as displacement, migration and the experience of observing how he lives, loves and works in other latitudes.
I left my life between Ceuta and Gibraltar
The heavens infinite Cadiz; clandestine images of the cathedral of San Marco in Venice, changing the ice of Alaska, where the mound anonymous ever landed a foot of the Colossus of Rhodes; asepsis flaunts skyscrapers and Japanese ; impossibly beautiful sea of the Caribbean islands.
All these diverse landscapes, and even found, in the images of Mora, photographer and art historian. Plates that are at once fascinated by the places they are, but also because there are good intentions and make.
Leave your entire house for months to face hard work thousands of miles is not something that is made by hand at the waist. This experience has, "is exhausting. You need to be brave because they work under much stress. It is a day at sea and in port and contracts are for six months, with two of rest. "
These cruises are working around two thousand people from 600 countries of the globe. It is a kind of floating babel which uses English as the lingua franca to go as most the rest of the crew, but also listen to conversations in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Polish.
While there he realized the magnitude of migration worldwide. "Everybody wants to move south to the north and from north to south, for different reasons. I think it's a generational issue, "he says.
Mexicans still known for their attachment to the homeland and family, not the exception, in the third talk Brenda Luna, curator of the exhibition Paloma and friend of hers. "All we are going to work. There is a lot of brain drain because here is not how to develop, "he says.
Mora has made trips to North America, Asia, the Caribbean and much of Europe, and is now about to engage in its fifth trip. But with the excitement of knowing new countries and continents, also had moments where I felt alone. Every Saturday she knew people would not do lasting bonds with anyone. "
Of all the places he has known, is the best Asia has fascinated him, especially Japan, where he would like to live, and whose architecture is a source of many of his shots.
In his pictures are shocking the vibe of Nagasaki; the meeting of tradition and modernity of Shanghai. But above all is a window to the world that we would know a way to travel with her, but still sighing with feet rooted.
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