Portrait
Portrait photography occupies an important place in Jorge Vinueza’s work. Along his career, he has learnt to look his photographed people in the face and he has received honest looks that seek to sustain his pride in his identity in front of the camera.
@lafotomovida
In complement to his passion for formal portraiture, since 2009 he has been adding portraits to his collection of stolen souls, a photographic activity he carries out with a park camera with a Voighlander lens from the late 1800s and is called @lafotomovida.
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The portrait of a different time
The portrait of a different time
Facing a camera that is more than 100 years old is not easy in millennial times: the portrait subject has to remain still for between ten and twenty seconds at the instant of shutter release. A camera from another time used in this one can only be madness, a luminous nonsense; however, for Vinueza it is a way of going back to the roots and the basis of photography, because in his sleeve camera he has everything he needs to capture light without a single megapixel.
It’s not about vanity here, it’s about looking good in the photo, far from today’s selfie. Many are somewhat perplexed by the result (there are even those who have recognised traces of an ancestor in their photo); they carry in their portrait something more than paper, they carry a moment of reflection, because from this experience the proposal is the awareness of the present and stillness in a time when people have no time and do not stay still.
Jorge Vinueza, documentary photographer and portraitist of the soul, carries out this activity to escape the media rush and the speed at which images are produced today. For almost twelve years he has been stealing the souls of friends and characters, bringing them for a few seconds closer to the awareness of the present moment and the value of a photographic portrait.
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Facing a camera that is more than 100 years old is not easy in millennial times: the portrait subject has to remain still for between ten and twenty seconds at the instant of shutter release. A camera from another time used in this one can only be madness, a luminous nonsense; however, for Vinueza it is a way of going back to the roots and the basis of photography, because in his sleeve camera he has everything he needs to capture light without a single megapixel.
It’s not about vanity here, it’s about looking good in the photo, far from today’s selfie. Many are somewhat perplexed by the result (there are even those who have recognised traces of an ancestor in their photo); they carry in their portrait something more than paper, they carry a moment of reflection, because from this experience the proposal is the awareness of the present and stillness in a time when people have no time and do not stay still.
Jorge Vinueza, documentary photographer and portraitist of the soul, carries out this activity to escape the media rush and the speed at which images are produced today. For almost twelve years he has been stealing the souls of friends and characters, bringing them for a few seconds closer to the awareness of the present moment and the value of a photographic portrait.
Diners Magazine 2019