Desconfiar de la mirada

Este proyecto surge ante la curiosidad de saber por qué la gente se tatúa. El ser humano se viene tatuando desde tiempos ancestrales, pero desde principios de los 90 se hizo mucho más patente y la tendencia no ha hecho más que aumentar. Hoy en día estamos acostumbrados a ver tatuajes de todo tipo, en todo lugar, y en cualquier tipo de persona, pero sin embargo no sabemos la mayoría de las veces qué motivo ha llevado a una persona a tatuarse. Así que llegados a este punto me propuse por lo menos intentar averiguar por qué mis amigos y conocidos llevan tatuajes y documentarlo de alguna ...

Nadar, whose real name was Felix Tournachon (1820-1910), was a conspicuous, even astonishing presence in nineteenth-century France. Engaging and quick-witted, he invented himself over and over as a bohemian writer, a journalist, a romantic utopian, a caricaturist, a portrait photographer, a balloonist, an entrepreneur, a prophet of aeronautics. The name "Nadar" was on everyone's lips. Today, it is Nadar's photography that is remembered. His sitters, who were often his friends, included the great men and women of his time: Dumas, Rossini, Baudelaire, Sarah Bernhardt, Daumier, Berlioz, George...

With Torero, Ruven Afanador juxtaposes the incredible beauty of young bullfighters and old-world Latin traditions with a couture-inspired vision of the opulent costumes and the ritualistic elements of the matador culture, and narcissism, an integral aspect of fashion photography. Afanador opens the door to the famously closed society of bullfighters, offering his elegant, private view of the young matadors raised in a centuries-old Latin tradition, capturing their balletic beauty, and their distinctly erotic aura. Through these iconic portraits, Afanador also gorgeously documents the...