British photographer to be interested in Cuban landscape

Havana, October 14, - The British photographer JOBO will be capturing landscapes from the Cuban geography with his camera. Vinales and Trinidad will be his preferred scenarios, which he frequently heard mentioned with much admiration by several colleagues. JOBO is a creator of images coming from the most selected aspects in the field of photography in English fine arts. He manages the making of true pictures with impact and depth through the measured and comprehensive use of composition and color. "You have to include something beyond your sight when you make a photograph," says the artist and he adds "I go out to photograph anything that might interest me, even though it might seem insignificant at first. An image lies right there and the work of art will be made if the camera, the eye and the mind manage to work in harmony." Jonathan Boris Clifford-Smith (JOBO) studied printing at the Sir John Cass Arts Academy, in the University of Morley and digital photography in the London Photography School. His work has been shown in exhibition in the United Kingdom, in other European countries, in the United States and in South Africa. Many of them might be seen being part of public collections as well as private ones, all over the world. JOBO tells this newspaper, "I guess that hunting for an image is for us much like a wild hunter looking for food for its body. In my case, I look for the food for my soul." The master of Photography, uses very novel techniques in which he mixes together traditional photography, painting, engraving with the digitalization of images. "I am a passionate traveler who goes towards the most interesting or far away places. This place might be in my garden, in my country or somewhere else in the world. My camera is my greatest and most important companion in this tour. I almost always have a camera with me. You never know when that incredible, instantaneous, naked and wonderful image will be in front of us, waiting to be taken," tell us the artist. JOBO has become famous not only by his photographs and his brilliant combinations of photographs, but by his own style that marks and identifies his work. His images show certain persons, things, places, situations, a whole environment that speaks for itself showing its capacity to see things that go beyond what everyone else simple observe. This time is the people, the things, the moments, the details of the island the ones that occupy all of his attention. The British photographer is especially dedicated to the Cuban landscape which is not marked by great rivers, mountains, lakes or desserts, but where people might truly see many very important geographical elements in the Caribbean. Together with this, there is what has been created by the hand of man through his history, as well as the imprints left in its work.

Cubarte News News posted on 10/15/2008 10:30:42 AM

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