Archeoportraits

Archeophotography is what your mind does each time you pickup a family picture book and people discus with their memory every little detail in each image.

I found a hard drive 6 years old. And it looks like an antic. I remember it had two other brothers, one died of over heating and the other with a virus that came from a program that promised to recover deleted images you promised to your girl friend that no one would see till she changed her mind and made you delete them...

That was way back when PC`s were the only way to go for me.

And this is where it became more interesting. With a hard drive loaded with immature photographs taken with a Canon XT. giving a strange low quality image that spits out all its flows on the up to date computer Im using now: I found that most of the pictures (if i wasn't jaded by a pretty face) were talking about most of the same things i talk about now. So ill be adding up sections to Lizards Night. Instead of separating chapters with little fairies and princesses in distress, there will be a succession of strange portraits that will bring complex questions to the table.

Portraits around me recently have been intended to glorify beauty by covering up black spots and pimples with shiny visual sparks, that in a way short circuit my attention. Iv found it pretentious and imitative. So fondling these "old" pictures with new technology gave me access to a process i missed very much, the combination of "chiaroscuro"and grainy texture of high ISO B&W film. With in the combination came the next discovery.

We all like to say we have taken photographs since we can remember, but its never the case.

I never invested in a good set of filter for B&W Photography, thinking that with a dense red filter was more than enough, had to do with high contrast clouds, very nineties video clip or U2album cover. (Not many clouds where I live and I think U2 is over rated)

So good thing I found the Blue filter for B&W digital conversion. Cant wait to get a real one...

Ashley Fell in one of my uncompleted short films that turned into a music video, Better day Dante Ochoa. You can see it at Tren Géminis Producción

Bety Aguilar Maza

Cesar Guevara from TGProducciónes

Luis Fernando Corona

Ginita Bonita

Mario Josué Aguilar Méndez

Ashley Fell

You can call this a study on new digital filters in B&W with older DSLR files, but for me its just progress in my work. (And getting ready for Friday, got a photo shoot with some talented models, so they can knock some sense back into me).