Pekín, Beiwa Road, 23 de septiembre de 2013.
Beijing, Beiwa Road, 23 September 2013.
北京,北洼路,2013年9月23日。
1. Siempre alerta. Nunca sabes cuándo ni dónde aparecerá la imagen que te gustaría atrapar.
2. Cambia tu manera de mirar lo que te rodea. Lo cotidiano encierra lo único.
3. Ten siempre las baterías principal y de repuesto listas.
4. No olvides la tarjeta de memoria.
(1 y 2: cumplidas. 3 y 4: ¿en serio? No lo sabíamos.)
Oí la música desde mi habitación de hotel, me vestí deprisa, cogí la cámara y bajé corriendo, justo a tiempo de incorporarme a la procesión. Caras sonrientes, preguntas, un chino todavía vacilante y lenguaje corporal para cubrir las lagunas.
¿Eres reportera? ¿De qué país eres? ¿Cómo se hace allí?
¿Qué hacéis? ¿Por qué encendéis una hoguera a cada rato? ¿Podéis enseñarme esa figura?
Únete a nosotros.
La batería agonizaba, la memoria interna se saturaba, mi vocabulario llegaba a sus límites. Fotos movidas, borrosas, imágenes que no valen.
Pero no importa.
Siempre consideraré esta como mi verdadera primera anécdota como fotógrafa callejera. La primera que me deja una marca tangible, la primera que me enseña un par de lecciones valiosas (y básicas).
Que sea la primera de muchas. Que la fotografía y el mundo que me rodea sigan transformando mi manera de mirar. Que mi paisaje esté siempre en continua expansión.
1. Stay alert. You might spot that image that you are looking for just around the corner. Anywhere, actually. Anytime. So keep your eyes wide open.
2. Change the way your eyes look around you, for uniqueness likes to hide behind dailyness.
3. Always keep your kit of batteries ready.
4. Please do not forget your memory card.
(No. 1 & 2 — check. No. 3 & 4 — no sh*t, Sherlock!)
1. Stay alert. You might spot that image that you are looking for just around the corner. Anywhere, actually. Anytime. So keep your eyes wide open.
2. Change the way your eyes look around you, for uniqueness likes to hide behind dailyness.
3. Always keep your kit of batteries ready.
4. Please do not forget your memory card.
(No. 1 & 2 — check. No. 3 & 4 — no sh*t, Sherlock!)
I heard the music from where I stood, tired and mainly bored in my hotel room, and I barely had time to get dressed, grab my Fuji and run downstairs, where I was luckily able to join the little, colourful procession. Nothing close to our own notion of that word, of course. Smiling, friendly faces, questions, my (still) pretty awkward Chinese and lots of sign and body language to fill the (many) gaps.
Are you some kind of journalist? Where do you come from? What does this look like when you guys do it?
What are you doing, actually? Why do you make a bonfire every few steps? Can you show me that figure over there, pretty please?
Please join us.
The only available battery was already in its death throes, the internal memory flooded with more pics than it could store, my vocabulary was reaching a limit. Blurry, worthless photos galore.
But it does not really matter, does it?
I will always regard this anecdote as my very first, real one as a street photographer. The first one to make a deep impression on me, the one that taught me some very valuable (and pretty basic, I know) lessons.
May this one be the first of many. May photography and this awesome, huge world around me keep changing the way I look at people and stuff. May my landscape and my horizons forever keep expanding.
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