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A look back is the traveling exhibition photographer Damian Lajara, in which the author reflects a series of images of personalities from the region with a pinhole camera, without the use of lenses or objectives.
The exhibition can be seen in Cartagena Roman Theatre Museum until 16 February. The general director of Cultural Heritage, Maria Comas, together with the Councillor for Culture and Education of the City of Cartagena, David Martinez Noguera, the museum's director, Elena Ruiz , and author, opened the exhibition on Tuesday, 26 enero.Esta exhibition takes the viewer to a forgotten time and reminds us that more than a century and a half thousand people, without great financial resources, had the opportunity to have the memory of their loved ones.
This craftsmanship has wanted to print a different view of the relevant persons Murcia.
Damian makes these more than 30 s portrait in renovated and personal creations, making your job a close dialogue with the image that immerses us in his deep domain experience and photography.
Dr. Mary in Photography and History Manzanera, Lajara Damian knows the secrets of photography, for years began to struggle with her ​​in Barcelona, ​​when negative images were born and emerged lit with an eerie red light says.
However, this time, not holding a digital camera, do not pick a file to treat the computer like most contemporary photographers. Damian challenges still being marked and choose pinhole photography for exhibition.
A photograph apparently simple but to achieve quality works extraordinarily complicated.
Pinhole cameras are usually handmade;
They are built with cardboard boxes, cans, matchboxes, boats or any other device that can shut out the light.
It basically consists of a dark chamber with a small hole (called pinhole), by which light rays impinge on the film or photographic paper is admitted.
The first images we owe to Sir David Brewster, an English scientist who was one of the first who practiced pinhole photography in the 1850s.
As parallel activities on February 9 at 19.00 hours The lecture will be given by Juan Bautista Garcia forgotten Esteve, president of the Association of Estenopica Photography of Murcia, followed by a guided tour to be held image exposure.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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