BALLOON HEAD: some thoughts about a photograph made during an assignment
I need to explain that:
I posted this image using a black and white filter directly on instagram.
What?! You have it in for visual games and balls instead of heads and then you take a photo like that and share it?
I tell you that in this case it makes sense. I was busy with a news coverage. And it happened to take this shot. I immediately thought it was a stroke of genius to propose it in the service.
Working for 6 days on the theme of football, the head as a ball became the perfect commentary on what I had experienced. And then it's like wanting to invade photojournalism with current street photography.
That's why, contextualized, it makes sense.
It is a joke. My personal joke in order to say something about the experience made as a photographer for L’ EQUIPE, already one of the most important milestones achieved in my career. I made this photograph in Guadalajara, in a small suburban football field. It was the last service before finishing a job that kept me busy for 6 days between Mexico City and, precisely, the capital of the state of Jalisco. It is not the same of what street photographers do. Now you have to see the original sequence:
If you think I used the burst mode to make this, you are totally wrong: I NEVER use the burst mode on my cameras while I am a strong believer of the one shot. So, yes this photograph, the second one, the one I decided to share on instagram is a sort of photographic miracle. Or simply another proof of who I am as a photographer. Because even the street photographers are used to make overlaps of this type but not with the ball in motion as I did.
This is a great effort on my part, especially considering I did it while working as a photojournalist on a client assignment. An image that is also a sort of provocation since I have always criticized this type of photography in street photography. And it is also a declaration: look, I know how to do it, and if I do it in a better way than the masses. But I don't do it if they don't have a more important meaning. In this case it is a game useful for everything. I still don't know if this image will be selected in the definitive collection of the magazine. But I shared it here to clarify my idea.
