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Journal Entry: Sat May 10, 2008, 12:35 PM
  • Mood: Lonely
  • Listening to: CSN&Y
  • Reading: Orwell's War Diaries
  • Watching: Lovely girls go by
  • Playing: With my emotions




New Project

As Janis Joplin aptly stated, "time keeps moving on, friends, they turn away". So the editor for my previous book ([link]) weaseled his way out of the deal and when we accidentally met, gave me a sickening half hour of pretexts, cop-outs, alibis and uncalled-for explanations. And he spits when he talks, which is unsufferable and gross. So I have put out my personal edition (not as high-quality as I'd like, but a good price-quality compromise) of the "Of time and place" book in English and Spanish, and "Abstractoreo" in Spanish. Maybe someday they'll find a worthy editor, but I won't sit down and cry while it happens. I have things to do, photos to take, beauty to find and preserve in pixels.

So now I'm on a new project related to women and colors, which I began with my last shoot with Janet and which may take up a nice part of my upcoming months besides other kinds of photos. Seven totally different models, from girls to adults, from sweet to sexy, different kinds of beauty and emotion in seven colors. Or at least I hope so.




The idea is not to play with any preconcieved stereotype of colors, (red-passion, green-environment, I hate that stuff), rather asking each model to interpret her color, to be herself in yellow of violet, to hide behind masks or props and show whatever they choose, to feel and express emotion as strongly as possible.

Wish me luck. Seriously.



Contests, Past and Upcoming


The first contest I ran was, I guess, moderately successful. I'll accept any ideas on how to have more entries and more voters in an upcoming contest I have in the oven. As a photographer working with female models, I've found that women and girls who take self-portraits are a wonderful way to see women under a different light. Let's admit it: I'm a guy, all guys are the same, and probably we're all pigs (some of us try to be tender, understanding and loveable pigs, but that's about it) and I see women as a guy might. Photographically, aesthetically and spiritually, women photographers in general but especially women who do selfpics, teach me a lot. My idea is to set up a contest to cerlebrate and thank self-portraiters in DA, and may the term "camera whore" go into politically-incorrect hell sooner better than later.

So I'm calling for ideas to get more participation, prize donations and any suggestion that might help for the upcoming female selfportraits contest I might launch in a few weeks.




Latest SelfPics I've Faved.

To start with the new theme, here are a few of the latest selfpics I've faved. Sometimes they are photographically relevant, sometimes they are technically lacking, sometimes the subject is beautiful as in catwalk model, other times she's beautiful in many other ways, sometimes they are profoundly sensuous or not. What I really care about is looking at images where women tell me their stories, where they say "this is how I am, this is who I am, this is how I see myself, this is the person I want you to see".

(It's clear why I find DA such an important part of my artistic life.)





















Photographing expresses human desire to preserve passing time. It is like a man struggling with time that elapses, and in general – a desire to preserve oneself.
--Ryszard Kapuscinski




Commissions and licensing: E-mail me at nocturno@noccom.com. More photos in my website.

Models always needed in Spain: Email me (nocturno@noccom.com) or note me.

All photos and text ©Mauricio-José Schwarz No photos may be used without permission.

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=ketene May 10, 2008, 7:11:33 AM
The color project sounds really interesting and fun. Good luck! I can't wait to see what you come up with. :aww:



Thank you for featuring me!
:iconpeppermintstripe:
~PeppermintStripe May 10, 2008, 8:41:48 AM
I wish you all my luck with your upcoming colour project, it sounds wonderfully interesting and I can't wait to see what you have to show us.
As for your contest, I'd be happy to not only submit a photo for it but also feature it in my next journal to try and get the word out for you.

Cheers

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*Ex-po-zure Go get exposed!
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*my-dark-desire May 10, 2008, 10:23:34 AM
creo el concurso en una idea excelente
:boogie:
espero q se pueda hacer realidad
si es asi, puedes contar con mi apoyo :hug:

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=Tw1stedTruth-stock May 10, 2008, 12:53:28 PM
I love your upcoming project with the colors, it sounds like a great idea!
Thank you for featuring my stock amongst your choices :hug:

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Art Work: [link]
Stock: [link]
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*GothiCruz May 10, 2008, 3:21:09 PM
Quero participar, pero no se ingles, me lo explicas?

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** Amo a Therion **
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=nocturno May 10, 2008, 3:25:30 PM
Bueno, te aviso cuando lo lancemos, pero es fundamentalmente un concurso que estoy preparando de autorretratos femeninos. Lo que cuento es que yo aprendo mucho de las mujeres que hacen autorretrato, me enseñan a ver a la mujer de modos distintos, y eso trato de usarlo en mi trabajo, y como homenaje vamos a hacer un concursillo en unas semanas: podrás concursar con un solo autorretrato, me interesa más lo emocional, que muestres algún secreto, y no meramente la belleza, que en la mujer la doy por sentada. Y en tu caso más :)
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*GothiCruz May 10, 2008, 3:28:00 PM
Me apunto, solo voy a querer mas detalles sobre autoretratos.

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** Amo a Therion **
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~SeparateFromTheHead May 11, 2008, 1:59:41 AM
Thank you! :)

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"If we are what we eat
I could be you tomorrow"
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=nocturno May 11, 2008, 4:11:13 AM
Subiré la convocatoria en inglés y español, ¿te parece?
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