HAWANSUYO

The Photographs of Mario Algaze By Carolina Amoruso (Las fotos a las que hace referencia Carolina Amorouso se pueden encontrar el en web de Mario Algaze ) I’d just attended a photo workshop on lighting, a skill that remains unaddressed in my work beyond trying to transcribe the luminosity captured by my lens into a faithful and memorable image on my hard drive or shiny stiff paper. I left more daunted than enlightened, so to speak, as much of the talk covered expensive and heavy equipment that promised to make my outings more like the walk up Mount Calvary than a time to merge the perceived world with the one of art and perhaps history. I’d been further dismayed by the presenter, noble as he was, as he offered a bag full of tricks that would make of a mundane image one that sparkled and engaged; I’ve always held fast that photography is a way to possess life just as it is to the capturer, no slight of hand, no mysterious wizard pulling strings behind a black curtain. Next on the day’s ...