Photoblog – andres joaquin sendino

PHOTOBLOG

"When the real is no longer what it was, nostalgia assumes its full meaning".

Jean Baudrillard

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21.10.2024

In the summer of 2005, while working on a documentary in the Swedish Lapland, I tested my Kiev 16u, a Soviet 16mm camera I found in an old market in Tallinn. Unfortunately, the camera didn't perform as expected and the result was a veil of mosquitoes and blurred images. I wanted to share it anyway. As William Klein said: "Blur is part of life".

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21.09.2024

Flashback.

Linnahall's harbour, in Tallinn, revisited 25 years later. The second photo is taken from the lower right corner of the first image. Big changes, no doubt, but the same spirit.

Icebreaker Suur Tõll in Linnahall, Tallinn, 1999 © Photograph by Andrés Joaquín Sendino

Linnahall's beach, Tallinn, in 2024 © Photograph by Andrés Joaquín Sendino

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19.09.2024

I read in the press that Liina Trishkina-Vanhatalo is releasing her second feature film this week. I haven't seen either of them, but congratulations anyway!.

Portrait of Liina Trishkina-Vanhatalo, in Koidu street, 2006. Tallinn. Estonia. © Photograph by Andrés Joaquín Sendino

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04.09.2024

READING.

"Certainly even the exterior change in faces I had known was only the symbol of an internal change effected day by day. Perhaps these people continued doing the same things everyday, but the idea they had about these things and about the people they associated with, having a little life in it, resulted after some years, in those things and people being different under the same names and it would have been strange if the faces of the latter had not changed."

Time Regained (In Search Of Lost Time).
MARCEL PROUST, 1927.
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23.08.2024

L , Tallinn, Estonia. Polaroid © Andrés Joaquín Sendino

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06.07.2024

Elegant, profound, always fascinating. A head and shoulders above the rest. Nobody knew better than Ingmar Bergman how to depict the human soul on film and the difficulty, if not the complete impossibility, of real communication between human beings. His universe can be visited at the Bergman Center in Faro, Gotland.

Bergman Center. Sweden , 2024 © Andrés Joaquín Sendino

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26.06.2024

Agenda:

BERGMAN WEEK

(June 24 to June 28)

BERGMAN CENTER

Faro (SWEDEN)

"Old shit". Polaroid. Gotland, 2024 © Andrés Joaquín Sendino

This mid-summer I am visiting the idyllic islands of Gotland and Fårö for the Bergman Week

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6.05.2024

Agenda:

DAIDO MORIYAMA RETROSPEKTIIVI

(March 8 to June 2024 2)

K1 - KÄMP GALLERIA

Mikontaku 1 - HELSINKI - FINLAND

Helsinki, 2024 © Andrés Joaquín Sendino

Photography is an immersive journey, an act of discovery through emotion.

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02.04.2024

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16.03.2024

READING.

"The bruise was deep, deep, deep ... the bruise of the false inhuman war. It would take many years for the living blood of the generations to dissolve the vast black clot of bruised blood, deep inside their souls and bodies. And it would need a new hope."

Lady Chatterly´s lover.

D.H. Lawrence, 1932.

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26.01.2024

SHOOT film!

KAAMERA RENT TALLINNAS

16mm and Super 8 cameras available for rent for your next film project in Tallinn, Estonia.
BOLEXReflex 16mm, Krasnogorsk 3 16mm, Beaulieau 5008 professional Super 8, etc. Ask for offers and conditions!

https://joaquinsendino.com/camera-rental

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17.01.2024

L , Berlin © Andrés Joaquín Sendino

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19.12.2023

Me (on Instant Film) in Spain in the 90s © Andrés Joaquín Sendino

"To discuss oneself is an invitation to disaster"

Paul Bowles

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14.12.2023

The Spanish writer Josep Plá once said that what makes us feel the present more intensely is the past. Something, he added, directly related to the imagination and the inseparable feeling of loss. This idea came to me after visiting William Eggleston´s exhibition "The Mistery of Everyday" at the

KBr in Barcelona. An exhibition that could also be called The Utopia of Color. It is said that when John Szarkowski first commissioned Eggleston´s at

MOMA (it was 1976 and it was the first color exhibition in the history of that institution) the critics were unanimously hostile and unfavorable. Almost fifty years have passed and today his work, in addition of showing us the nostalgia of a vanished world, is essential for a better understanding of the evolution of photography in recent decades because of its markedly transitional character.

Personally, I have a deep admiration for the elegance and style of his images. Some of his very personal photographs are literally breathtaking. A photographer who has been imitated ad nauseam over the last few decades, but who is in fact absolutely inimitable.

Once again, the KBr on the Paseo Litoral in Barcelona is worth a visit. Unfortunately the wonderful bookstore dedicated to photography that was in the lobby has been dismantled or reduced to the Foundation's catalogs and publications. A real loss this time.

Agenda:

The Mistery of Everyday. By WILLIAM EGGLESTON

(28 September to 28 January 2024)

KBr Photography Center - FUNDACION MAFRE

Avda. Litoral 30. 08005 Barcelona

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08.11.2023

November in Cabo de Gata, Spain. Enchanted by the light, a luminous and direct experience.

Cabo de Gata, Almeria, 2023 © Andrés Joaquín Sendino

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06.10.2023

The former San Nicolas pilgrim hospital on the Camino de Santiago, surrounded by clouds of dust, fading into the afternoon. El Camino will give you what you need, not what you are looking for ...

Ermita de San Nicolás. Camino de Santiago, 2023 © Andrés Joaquín Sendino

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01.08.2023

Carrousel. France, 2023 © Andrés Joaquín Sendino

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27.06.2023

Estonia, 2023 © Andrés Joaquín Sendino

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01.05.2023

European Film College. Denmark, 1998 © Andrés Joaquín Sendino

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14.02.2023

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12.02.2023

This is my old 35mm Bell and Howell - "Eyemo", - a motion picture camera designed in 1925. Originally intended for combat photography, military documentation and news coverage, it was widely used in the 1930´s during the Spanish Civil War (Cartier-Bresson, Roman Karmen, Robert Capa, etc) and also during the World War II by most of the American and Russian cameramen covering the conflict. With this camera Roman Karmen filmed the heart- wrenching images of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps or the fall of Berlin. It was also used by Stanley Kubrick to shoot his first documentaries and the film "Killer's Kiss" in 1955.

Bell and Howell "Eyemo" 35mm © Andrés Joaquín Sendino

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28.10.2022

Cardenal Tavera. Toledo, 2022 © Andrés Joaquín Sendino

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20.10.2022

Self portrait with Minolta CLE camera and Leica 21mm Super-Angulon. As Marshall McLuhan would say, "If it works, it's obsolete".

Sierra de Gredos, Spain. 2022 © Andrés Joaquín Sendino

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12.05.2022

I return to my old blog after a long winter with a reflection by psychologist James Jerome Gibson, defender of the ecological theory of seeing. According to him, "seeing must be a symbolic process because the world itself obviously does not exist inside our heads." Today I just want to recommend a great book by the Italian photographer Luigi Guirri (1943-1992): The Complete Essays 1973-1991, a pure delight.

"The recovery of direct experience can start only from an awareness that destruction has occurred". Luigi Guirri.

Luigi Ghurri

THE COMPLETE ESSAYS 1973-1991. Published by MAC.

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05.10.2021

New York. Polaroid, 2019 © Andrés Joaquín Sendino

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25.09.2021

Everything begins with an impression. And the reality emerges from the encounter. As the poet wrote; "we do manufacture realities".

This is a view from my first visit to Tallinn in 1999.

Suur Tõll. Tallinn, 1999 © Andrés Joaquín Sendino

"You dream of one thing and get something quite different" STALKER. Andrei Tarkovsky.

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23.08.2021

There is still time to visit Winogrand´s exhibition at the Kbr Photography Center - Fundación Mapfre in Barcelona, until 05.Sep (together with Nicholas Nixon´s The Brown Sisters). There, you´ll also find one of the finest photography bookstores in Spain. It worths a visit.

Gary Winogrand´s exhibition.

KBr Photography Center - FUNDACION MAFRE
Avda. Litoral 30. 08005 Barcelona

https://www.fundacionmapfre.org/en/art-and-culture/exhibitions/kbr-photography-center/garry-winogrand/

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22.08.2021

En palabras del fotógrafo Serguio Larraín: "El presente/instante es la META, no es el camino."

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22.04.2021

Estonian winter is almost over. Time to move forward. These are some 16mm frames from my ongoing work. What is it about the real film that makes it so magic and attractive?

Tallinn, winter, 2021 © Andrés Joaquín Sendino

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27.02.2021

My first Bolex H16 reflex ... as the old brochure in the 1950s said: "If you like cinema because it is cinema, you won't find another camera to replace it."

I got it from the old, idiosyncratic Radio-Cinema Jimenez, Calle Antonio Acuña 3, Madrid in 2005 ("Por si usted no lo sabía, tenemos todo en Radio, Cine y Fotografía").

Bolex 16H and Bolex guide © Andrés Joaquín Sendino

The Bolex H16 is known to be a very versatile movie camera, strong and reliable. It is built of cold-pressed aluminum alloy covered in black leather, and it's designed to accommodate 15 or 30 meter spools of 16mm film. The first model was produced in 1936. This one is a reflex model, from 1957, fitted with a semi-circular turret head that can carry three different lenses. By moving the turret, you can change from one lens to another - it can be fitted with superb C-mount lenses such as Kern, Berthiot, Leitz, Angenieux, etc. And because it´s powered by a spring drive motor you will never run out of batteries!

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19.12.2020,

Agenda:

Andres Petersen´s exhibition.
Color Lehmitz, at Fotografiska Museum. (30.10.20 - 07.02.21)
Telliskivi 60a/8, 10412. Tallinn, Estonia.

https://www.fotografiska.com/tallinn/en/exhibition/lehmitzi-varvid/

Anders Petersen's legendary Cafe Lehmitz revisited through its originals contacts sheets. In Tallinn until mid-February.

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15.12.2020

A comment on the rise in prices for used analog cameras in recent years. Not long ago, prices for medium format film cameras were literally at rock bottom. For example, it was not difficult to find a Pentax 67 for around 250 euros. Nobody seems to be interested in these cameras any more. In 2010 I picked up mine in near mint condition for that price. But things have changed. It was inevitable. The demand has grown in recent years and last week, at a well-known auction house in Stockholm, someone paid around 1,800 euros for one that wasn't in the best condition. A Mamiya 6 from the 1990s was also sold there for about 2,500 Euros. Well, the prices have come a long way, but it seems that for now, as anyone can see on eBay, the trend will continue in this direction.

Latvia (with Pentax 67) © Andrés Joaquín Sendino

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04.10.2020

L. Tallinn © Andrés Joaquín Sendino

Quoting writer and painter John Berger: "The image has to be full - not of resemblance but of searching".

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02.04.2020

Spirit still alive and well. Against threatening pandemics and prolonged quarantines, my reading recommendation: Crisis of the Real, a true classic on photography, written by Andy Grundberg.

Tallinn, 2020 © Andrés Joaquín Sendino

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18.03.2020

I took this picture of film director Jim Jarmusch in the premiere of his film "The Dead Don´t Die" at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) during my last visit to New York in June 2019.

Jim Jarmusch, New York, 2019 © Andrés Joaquín Sendino

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10.03.2020

Coney Island, 2019 © Andrés Joaquín Sendino

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14.01.2020

Niebla. Polaroid. Spain, December, 2019 © Andrés Joaquín Sendino

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8.01.2020

Abstraction provides the necessary distance for respect and decorum. The discretion of the black and white image is based on this.

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8.12.2019

These memories are for ourselves. The photograph was taken with a Mamiya 6 and a 75mm lens. The Mamiya 6 is a rangefinder medium format film camera that was introduced in 1989 and was discontinued around 1999. I'm quite fond of this latest generation of fully manual cameras that arrived right before the rise of digital technology. They are elegantly unsophisticated but really precise. They added a little something extra before being left behind by "progress".

Familia, Tallinn © Andrés Joaquín Sendino

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30.11.2019

L. Vila Nova de Milfontes. Portugal © Andrés Joaquín Sendino

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20.09.2019

Agenda:
Robert Frank´s exhibition.
Robert Frank, at the C/O Berlin Museum. (13.09.19 - 30.11.19)
Amerika Haus . Hardenbergstraße 22–24 . 10623 Berlin
https://www.co-berlin.org/

"I am looking back into a world now gone forever. Thinking of a time that will never return". Robert Frank, 1971.

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10.09.2019

Farewell to Robert Frank, a bold artist and one of the most independent figures of photography. He was like a self-propelled wheel, a prophet, and a master of underground photography. The author of the iconic The Americans (1958), passed away yesterday in Inverness, Nova Scotia, at the age of 94. The great art of photography is in mourning.

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04.09.2019

"One draws a magic circle around oneself to keep everything out that doesn´t fit one´s secret games. Each time life breaks the circle, the game becomes puny and ridiculous. So one draws a new circle and builds new defenses." Ingmar Bergman.

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20.08.2019

A few weeks ago I went to see " Memoria", a James Nachtwey exhibition at the Fotografiska Museum in Stockholm, a chronicle of pain and horror and a busload of the finest photography. If there is one paradigmatic photographer who remains in the old honorable tradition of showing straight-on "what is wrong with the world", his name is James Nachtwey. I saw him more than 20 years ago in El Escorial, Madrid, at his lecture in a summer course at the Complutense University, and I was fascinated by his work and his attitude towards life and photography. I still am.

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05.08.2019.

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22.07.2019

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14.07.2019

Extinguishing the flames and preserving the organic structure ... traveling. I´m coming home.

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18.06.2019

Thundery showers, light winds, and half a moment of sun in New York for the rest of the week. Two recommendable documentaries to recall the USA of yesterday on a rainy day, now showing in Manhattan: Leaving home, coming home: A Portrait of Robert Frank, at the Film Forum, and Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese, at the IFC Center. Or if you prefer, take your time and enjoy a good book: Men Without Women, by Haruki Murakami. There are not many writers like him these days.

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31.05.2019

On the move. The long way to America in an ocean liner ...

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22.05.2019

EXHIBITION: ROBERT DOISNEAU. "PARISIAN STORIES".

"In times when humanity seems to be on the path of self-destruction and the media prefers to showcase images that amplify the feeling of tragedy and doom, it just feels right to pay homage to the French humanist photographer Robert Doisneau..." Kristel Aimee Laur. Curator.

At the Juhan Kuus Documentary Photo Centre. Telliskivi 60a/5. Tallinn. Until 18.8.2019.

If you are in Tallinn these days, don´t miss it.

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02.05.2019

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08.04.2019

In his extraordinary and enchanting book Beauty in Photography, the landscape photographer Robert Adams reminds us:

"Making photographs has to be a personal matter; when it is not, the results are not persuasive".

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29.03.2019

Agenda:

Fotografiska Tallinn is getting ready to open in June 2019 at Telliskivi Creative City. The Stockholm-based innovative museum of photography expands this year its presence to Tallinn, before opening in New York, Berlin and London.

Great news for those who fully appreciate the medium here in Tallinn.

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17.02.2019

Perhaps the subject and the reason for all photographs is just the flow of time ... We have started packing to return to the Estonian winter.

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14.02.2019

The café on the beach, bearing a certain resemblance to Morocco ...

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29.01.2019

As a contribution to memory, the photographic act is a kind of creative destruction process. As in a Borgean fiction — "every time a man confronts several alternatives, he chooses one and eliminates the others" — Even in the most absolute agreement with facts, the photographer's choice inevitably creates one reality (active and personal) and destroys others that are left unseen. The photographer´s vision is always incomplete, partial and selective.

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10.01.2019

Portraiture is about separation and a sort of need for closeness. A message of recognition, identification, and agreement. The greater our predisposition to describe a person in a certain way, the more questions that arise about that person's identity. Our affirmations, always subjective, open new gaps between the person and our interpretation. In the end, the portrait becomes a continuous re-creation of the self.

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07.12.2018

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29.07.2018

"Beauty is never less than a mystery, but it has within it a promise"

Robert Adams

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15.06.2018

I guess the challenge for the photographer is to emotionally renew the perception of what we think we know clearly.
To have the ability to rethink the generalized vision to reveal the most familiar as something new.

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06.06.2018

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"I sort of believe that a picture is like a prayer; you are offering a prayer to get something, and in a sense, it is like a gift of God because you have practically no control - at least I don't. But I wouldn't make a pronouncement out of it. I just don't know what makes a picture, really - the thing that makes it something unique, as far as I can understand. Just like one guy can write a sentence and it's beautiful and another one can write it and it's dead. What that difference is, I don't know" Harry Callahan.

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20.03.2018

Memories vanish unseen, but images will perhaps remain, recalling us ...