I have always had a super weakness towards the colors of third world countries. It is so ironic that in the places that money and frivolities are at such scarcity everything seems the most beautiful, full of color and life. Photographer Lisa Candela lived in Mexico for a year where she documented color of the culture. Candela’s hyper saturated images work so well in this series. the series tells a very iconic story, something that is both
October 19th, 2009 at 11:33 am
I’m actually from Mexico and i think Lisa Candela did a great job in this series of Mexico. I think she really gave a very stylish look to the way folklore things work here. Though i miss a little more of “mexican pink” in the pictures i think this is a hell of a job.
The photographs has this foreign look of what Mexico is and i really loved it.
Less than a year or so, David Lachapelle did a series for a mexican beer “XX lager” and he (and the creatives of the ad agency) really misunderstood the mexican culture. He wanted to do what he always do: a stylish kitsch. But he didn’t see that Mexico is kitsch by nature: in its culture, in its art. So his work looks very weak and false, and first of all zero innovative (which was the objective of the campaign). We’ve been doing kitsch “art” for centuries.
But looking at the images of Lisa Candela, I think she would’ve made a greater work for XX lager.
October 19th, 2009 at 11:34 am
well, looking at her site, i don’t miss the pink anymore =)
October 19th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
you need to improve the backgroud of the site it makes me dizzy to read
October 20th, 2009 at 1:10 am
Whats with the kiddie porn???
October 20th, 2009 at 7:01 am
i mean, its all in the mind of the perciever. i think its soft and beautiful, nothing porn like about it but then again i guess some people can be aroused by fucked up things!