A writer needs to read like a musician needs to listen music to enrich their own technique. In the same way a photographer needs to look at photos to expand his imagination. Currently, artists are multifaceted because they blend techniques and styles from the other disciplines. For example, or contemporary dance can use architecture, music combines visual art, or writing can blend with illustration. For that …
Author Archives: Bob Stranvisty
Concha Buika the last drink
When I took this picture, I remember I felt her voice to resound the strongest that made my soul vibrate. The song she was singing brought me a lot of memories from the past, it was the first time I felt nostalgia. “we are an impossible dream that seeks night.” abstract from the song “Somos” …
Cartoon
Photography is a result of our mind. Our brains built our vision, therefore all people see different things, and reality can be interpreted in many ways, so reality is subjective. When our mind is limited our reality can be a cage. Art has played with fiction to represent reality. Reality and fiction have the same essence, and sometimes they can become confused. …
PhotoBooks
The installation “24 HRS in Photos” by Erik Kessels at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is a room filled with prints made from photos uploaded to Flickr during a 24-hour period in 2011. Now, photography has been changing its way from conventional formats leaving galleries as the only space to show work. Contemporary photography …
This I Believe
Yesterday I found some pictures on the internet about women that had been in a mental Hospital in the 19th century. Those pictures had been taken by Dr Hugh Welch Diamond in England. He had taken those pictures because he believed through photography, if he could confront the crazy women with their own portraits it …
Haiku
Dead time
One good way to explore a city is using its public transportation. Atlanta has a metro called MARTA, and this metro goes across the city north to south and west to east. I like to use the metro because I can see all kinds of people, and my pictures focus on every day, so here I can find …
ABOUT ME
My name is Edwin Amado. I an Architect and Photographer from Colombia. I have been living in Atlanta for some months while I am learning my second language. I like to define myself as an audiovisual researcher because I believe through photography I can make personal exploration about things around me. I like to think about the world …
tower of the silent 