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| For Ramon Roca-Sastre (Barcelona, Spain, 1972) photography is not only the study of the technique and colour, but a spiritual contemplation of everything that surrounds us. After studiying photography in IEFC , Ramon discovered that black and white photography is a meeting point of both natural and artificial worlds. Ramon admires particularly the works of Joseph Sudek, Toni Catany and André Kertesz. His first encounter with photography was when his uncle gave him a Rollei 35TE as a present. Only few years later, Ramon decided to control the creative process from the beginning to the end in his laboratory. Currently, he works with a 35mm negative and a 6 x 4.5 cm size, mostly in B/W print film and silver gelatin paper. He doesn't plan to use digital photography, since the quality and feel that silver prints give are not by far reached by digital prints. |
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| Well, for me this is the real Barcelona! Barcelona has centuries and centuries of history, and keeping limited only to the ‘real’ Barcelona represents for me missing the best part: remembering the jews, the romans, the wars in the 18th century… All this happened here, and I love history and this city! Nowadays Barcelona has become a very touristical city; it’s a little bit what has happened, I imagine, to Prague: I was there 12 years ago and it was so crowded… I think it loses all its flavor… A friend of mine says that you can find a corner or street in this city that reminds you of every city in the world: this is almost true, there are hundreds of Barcelonas! | ||||||||||||||