By Amauris Betancourt.
Today’s Cuban press photography profits from creative times, alongside high aesthetic values. It prevails in art galleries all over the island, in competitive or non-competitive events, devoted to the lens's image. Press photography aesthetic level stands out and outdoes, in numbers, the purely artistic proposals on exhibit these days. Rene Pérez Massola, photoreporter for the Trabajadores Weekly, makes justice to this assumption.
And art is by no means excluded when it comes to photojournalism. The difference lies only upon intention and function. Art photography focuses on the purely aesthetic matter and leans on codes and a language appealing to intellectual sensibility while press photography calls upon objectivity from an unmasked reality. The former, more subjective resulting from human worries, abstracted to praise, to embellish or to criticize, in order to express the soul; the latter, objective to inform and to show with its tools a comprehensible message the best possible way.
However the frontier between these photographic genders fades away sometimes. It seems to come about with this young Cuban photographer who, aided by his web blog where he shows his best pictures – a real fortune and delight for photo-loving people –, that ironically, for one reason or another, do not get published in Cuban papers.
When visiting his blog recently, part of my daily habits, I found a very well interwoven photo-story that served as encouragement and leitmotiv to share it with the net users.
The first assessment dwells on the graphic strength of the photo-report and on the topic – a very common topic were it not for its importance after the disasters brought about
by the hurricane hits – focused on a very common place activity in the island these days: farming recovery, the potato harvest specifically, in honor of the 49th anniversary of the first voluntary work summoned by Che.
And speaking of his hurricane images the ones after Paloma in the province of Camagüey are worth looking at.
Convincing photo composition stands out, as well as the right use of planes, the timely change of shooting angles and the use of symbolism to provide a context to his pictures where he avoids commonly shots. It is also worth adding his relevant use of light, contrasts, tones and shades.
And to top it all his photo editing, or rather self-editing, work adds up to it when choosing the right pictures to get across better the message of the story.
Rene Massola’s photography wins over followers continuously. The hits and comments to his work in the blog show it, supported by the appropriate use of new technologies and its associated potentialities. Art and profession get along harmoniously in Massola's lens.
Today’s Cuban press photography profits from creative times, alongside high aesthetic values. It prevails in art galleries all over the island, in competitive or non-competitive events, devoted to the lens's image. Press photography aesthetic level stands out and outdoes, in numbers, the purely artistic proposals on exhibit these days. Rene Pérez Massola, photoreporter for the Trabajadores Weekly, makes justice to this assumption.And art is by no means excluded when it comes to photojournalism. The difference lies only upon intention and function. Art photography focuses on the purely aesthetic matter and leans on codes and a language appealing to intellectual sensibility while press photography calls upon objectivity from an unmasked reality. The former, more subjective resulting from human worries, abstracted to praise, to embellish or to criticize, in order to express the soul; the latter, objective to inform and to show with its tools a comprehensible message the best possible way.
However the frontier between these photographic genders fades away sometimes. It seems to come about with this young Cuban photographer who, aided by his web blog where he shows his best pictures – a real fortune and delight for photo-loving people –, that ironically, for one reason or another, do not get published in Cuban papers.
When visiting his blog recently, part of my daily habits, I found a very well interwoven photo-story that served as encouragement and leitmotiv to share it with the net users.
The first assessment dwells on the graphic strength of the photo-report and on the topic – a very common topic were it not for its importance after the disasters brought aboutby the hurricane hits – focused on a very common place activity in the island these days: farming recovery, the potato harvest specifically, in honor of the 49th anniversary of the first voluntary work summoned by Che.
And speaking of his hurricane images the ones after Paloma in the province of Camagüey are worth looking at.Convincing photo composition stands out, as well as the right use of planes, the timely change of shooting angles and the use of symbolism to provide a context to his pictures where he avoids commonly shots. It is also worth adding his relevant use of light, contrasts, tones and shades.
And to top it all his photo editing, or rather self-editing, work adds up to it when choosing the right pictures to get across better the message of the story.Rene Massola’s photography wins over followers continuously. The hits and comments to his work in the blog show it, supported by the appropriate use of new technologies and its associated potentialities. Art and profession get along harmoniously in Massola's lens.
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