A little chit- chat

Wanting to post hear my (oh-so-many) complaints about carnival I realized that last year I did the same thing. Wow, I've had this blog for almost one year and a half now.
Anyway. I guess I'll be a much more negative person than last year but things aren't the same in the country anymore, huh. So let's talk about Patra's carnival. Patra's carnival has groups of people wearing the same disguise and partying all together. The themes have types:
a. inspired from dumb, mainstream tv series
b. the inspiration doesn't matter, but the skirt has to be shorter than any other
c. combine a and b

Carnival in Patras is all about showing off and getting incredibly drunk and incredibly broke. And even though I have less oppositions about the second part, the whole three days make me sick. The flow of people coming in and going out of the city and the loud music and stuff. Feels like the city is getting violated.
And, I'd really wonder why the mayor would want this shit happening to the town IF I didn't know what the mayor had in mind. I mean, cooooome on, people are dying out there, people's electricity and water gets cut off, they become homeless, and all you spend money on is creating big boobed 3 meter high figurines that people get to see for three days. That's bullshit.

To be clear, I don't reject the whole meaning of carnival, just the thing it's become in this city where I live. I might dress up even this year, who knows. I'll just avoid the places "in fashion"

Orange

People that won't notice you

Street photography is a thing I've always been afraid of. To intrude in the privacy of other people. Even though I've done it in multiple ways (in good ways only). So even when I shoot in the streets, I try to be as discrete as possible. With my big strange cameras though this becomes an issue. So I shoot people when they don't look at me.

New year's eve

I normally wouldn't post this picture, but it challenges my eye. It is a posed portrait of a woman and her three daughters. The three of them look like her in a different way and they make a troubling sight, but a nice one indeed.

Luxembourg, the sequel

I developed one of the two rolls of film I shot in Luxembourg (plus some photos in my retina that won't appear in public if I don't find a light meter). The results were average : many whoopie travel pictures but amongst them some good ones. I completely love this one, without being able to define why.

Divine Slide Film

I've received the scanned slide film today. Although the scanning was deceiving (I know the people in the photography shop meant no harm, this film just needs a crazy professional scanner), I managed, after some light Ps, to make them look like the originals. Have I told you how much I love slide film??

Above are some pictures from the schoolyear project and a bonus one.











PS: the third one looks nothing like this in the original. I'll get it re-scanned soon but I couldn't resist posting it. Even though it has a false bokeh

Yet again...

How many are there in my school year? maybe 90 people. I've already shot 12.
Big projects, the ones that last more than a day, I've never done. So I'm excited about this one...

A man.

As you can see, the schoolyear project is going on and on... I'm receiving the slide film today and soon I'll have new faces to show

The other me

There is a country, other than the one I currently live in, that I hold dear. It's the country where I grew up. Luxembourg.
There's a strange feeling that I have when I return there. Every time I see something changed, I feel disappointment. Regardless if the changes are for the best (which I don't think, anyway) I'd like it to remain the same as when I left. Seing the once bare fields filled with ultra-modern malls brings a frown to my face. And what about you? How do you feel when the place where you grew up changes?
I came here, having in mind to photograph this place, the things I feel here. But right now, I feel the emergency to do it. Because if I wait another 10 or even 2 years it will be less the place I used to know.
Be ready.