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Hello, Hivers friends.
Sometimes I find myself thinking about certain things when I look back at the photographs I take on the street. Once I鈥檓 home, with a coffee in hand and looking at the faces of the people I photographed, it鈥檚 very common for fictional stories about them to start going through my head. I鈥檝e asked a few friends about it and apparently it鈥檚 something that happens quite often to street photographers.
Sometimes a person鈥檚 face seems to tell their story all by itself. Other times, it鈥檚 much harder to imagine what they are thinking or what might be going on inside their head. And then there are those completely neutral expressions, faces that seem to show no feelings at all. Those are the ones that disturb me the most.
Because when someone seems to have lost the desire to feel, I can鈥檛 help thinking that perhaps they need some kind of help. And lately, I鈥檝e been seeing those faces far too often on the streets.
I don鈥檛 pretend to be a mind reader, of course. I know perfectly well that a photograph only captures an instant, and that many of the stories I imagine probably have nothing to do with reality. It鈥檚 simply a habit I鈥檝e discovered in myself and, after talking with other street photographers, I鈥檝e realized it鈥檚 quite common.
I took this series a few days ago through the streets of Centro Habana, a place that has been deeply affected by the problems we are facing today.
I hope you enjoy them. I鈥檒l be reading your thoughts.
Saludos amigos hivers.
En ocasiones me pongo a pensar en algunas cosas cuando veo las fotos que hago en la calle. Ya con calma, en casa, tomando un caf茅 y mirando las caras de las personas que fotografi茅, es muy recurrente que me pasen por la cabeza historias ficticias sobre ellas. Se lo he preguntado a algunos amigos y, al parecer, es algo que tambi茅n suele pasarle a muchos fot贸grafos de calle.
Hay veces en que la cara de una persona, por s铆 sola, parece contar su historia. Otras veces es mucho m谩s dif铆cil imaginar qu茅 piensa o qu茅 est谩 pasando por su cabeza. Y est谩n esas expresiones completamente neutras, sin aparentes sentimientos. Esas son las que m谩s me perturban.
Porque cuando alguien parece haber perdido las ganas de sentir, pienso que probablemente necesite ayuda. Y 煤ltimamente me encuentro con esos rostros con demasiada frecuencia en las calles.
No pretendo ser adivino ni mucho menos. S茅 perfectamente que una fotograf铆a solo muestra un instante y que muchas de las historias que imagino seguramente no tienen nada que ver con la realidad. Es simplemente una costumbre que he ido descubriendo en m铆 y que, hablando con otros fot贸grafos de calle, veo que tambi茅n es bastante com煤n.
Esta serie la hice hace unos d铆as por las calles de Centro Habana, un lugar muy golpeado por los problemas actuales.
Espero que las disfruten. Los leo.
"All photos were taken by me 
Technical data: Nikon camera: Nikon D700 Nikon lens: 50mm f1.4 p-ais; 105mm f2.5 p-ais; 55 f1.2; 35mm f1.8 G Translated by Deepl free version.7