honorable mention
Eduardo Lopez Moreno kenya
title
SUPERHEROES ARE HUMAN BEINGS TOO
Some like to descend from Olympus where they live to the central areas of cities to be photographed, touched, and admired by the people who walk by. However, Heroes take breaks too. Tired of the efforts to make the world a better or worst place, they eat, sleep, rest and pray almost like everyone else.
I decided to follow and photograph them in those moments when they abandon themselves to their needs, appearing as simple human beings. Then I realized that they have feelings, insecurities, hopes and fears like you and me.
I like to travel and meet the world with its streets and its people, but the part that responds to my interest, my vision and philosophy of life. These images are a look at someone's world, a journey into their space and their life; an attempt to build a story without affection, but part of a social commitment.
I present different stories that intersect in the streets and in their plurality create a certain connection; a new sense. These images can be a set or a detail, an action, a look or a hand; a fixed temporality that captures movement. A piece of something that states a vaster space.
I believe that working with simple narratives of contrasted images, such as rich-poor, black-white or north-south, are deprived of any conceptual construct. It is about abusing simple photographic oppositions. I want to build visual bridges that bring closer different people, places and words, in an attempt to unit and integrate through symbols, images and spaces. The essence of parks, markets, religious celebrations, city functions, and movements of people, all reflect a way of being that after all have too many similarities and points in common in many parts of the world.
My images aim to reunite us with the common man, using a simple visual grammar that reveals the value of the everyday hidden life. Images that are the time of the people and the people in their time. This is particularly the case with the Refugee Camps.
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entry description
Superheroes are children of myths and legends, perhaps some of them demigods. They possess incredible strengths and powers. Sometimes innate qualities and attributes that make them different from human beings. Their mission is to protect, teach, entertain, and fight crime; but occasionally they are transgressors and villains. They are symbols of disorder and destruction and inheritors of evil and chaos. Others represent values of kindness, innocence, and optimism.Some like to descend from Olympus where they live to the central areas of cities to be photographed, touched, and admired by the people who walk by. However, Heroes take breaks too. Tired of the efforts to make the world a better or worst place, they eat, sleep, rest and pray almost like everyone else.
I decided to follow and photograph them in those moments when they abandon themselves to their needs, appearing as simple human beings. Then I realized that they have feelings, insecurities, hopes and fears like you and me.
about the photographer
I am an architect, with a master in sociology and PhD in urban geography. I studied photography nearly 40 years ago. Currently, I am preparing a book of photography entitled “Streets of the World and Their People” with short narratives accompanying the photos. I am considered as a social photographer. (https://eduardolopezmorenophoto.com).I like to travel and meet the world with its streets and its people, but the part that responds to my interest, my vision and philosophy of life. These images are a look at someone's world, a journey into their space and their life; an attempt to build a story without affection, but part of a social commitment.
I present different stories that intersect in the streets and in their plurality create a certain connection; a new sense. These images can be a set or a detail, an action, a look or a hand; a fixed temporality that captures movement. A piece of something that states a vaster space.
I believe that working with simple narratives of contrasted images, such as rich-poor, black-white or north-south, are deprived of any conceptual construct. It is about abusing simple photographic oppositions. I want to build visual bridges that bring closer different people, places and words, in an attempt to unit and integrate through symbols, images and spaces. The essence of parks, markets, religious celebrations, city functions, and movements of people, all reflect a way of being that after all have too many similarities and points in common in many parts of the world.
My images aim to reunite us with the common man, using a simple visual grammar that reveals the value of the everyday hidden life. Images that are the time of the people and the people in their time. This is particularly the case with the Refugee Camps.
back to gallery