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Huffington Post post about Billy Gomez.
The translation of the text that appears in the blog (which you can read below) is the work of Mark Donnelly . A great thank you to Mark for always looking for the best translation and to Billy Gomez for his great work and collaboration.
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Shadow Hunter
There are methodical photographers who dedicate hours to every photo controlling every little detail of light and composition. On the opposite side there are those who armed with their cameras are hungry for images like a hunter looking for his prey. They don’t know where nor when they’ll find this image. They’re not familiar with the place, the light or “the model”. But at any given time they’ll stumble upon it and shoot without thinking twice, feeling the rush of the hunter becoming the hunted.
Billy Gómez belongs to this lineage of camouflaged, instinctive, risk-taking, quick draw and crack shot photographers. He has become a creative and active witness of the streets of Seoul. Its inhabitants are the driving force behind his work with their hectic routines, their depression and loneliness etched on their faces. The metro, train and the streets are his usual scenes. As in this image, the people he photographs are alone, lost in thought and with an expression of defeat almost as if they were prisoners to a life they hadn’t dreamt of. They look through the windows with their imagination trying to escape but all they find are others like them who are just as lonely and lost.
Billy is aware of the fact that with his camera he is going to steal sad and intimate moments in public places with no previous permission and this has its risks. However this also turns the moment of capture into something exciting, disturbing and unpredictable. With his sensitive and lyrical voyeurism he turns everything he sees into art.
He develops his photographs in a way to increase the loneliness of the lives of the human beings he portrays. By adding a vignette to every one of his subjects and darkening the borders it seems like they are surrounded by shadows. With his camera he immortalizes these sad inhabitants and it can be said that his voyeurism of anonymous men and women is taxidermal.
Billy Gómez (Los Angeles, 1971)
Born in America he moved to Seoul in 2005 to teach English. His job leaves him with a lot of free time and soon he decides to make the most of it by taking photographs. After a few years of fooling around, experimenting and searching he starts to define his style - a combination of voyeurism and spontaneous portrait. The result is a lucid and sad x-ray of a city, Seoul and its inhabitants.
With a telephoto lens, a 50mm and lately an iPhone that allows him to go unnoticed, he hits the streets in search of the right light and perfect moment. Not being able to control light as one would in a studio makes post-production more laborious. The search for the right light is now one of this visual poet’s priorities in the streets of Seoul. A hunter of light and above all shadows.
another fantastic Friday with this male Osprey, he is so chilled, just sits about preening & stretching...
Trivia night at Post and Beam, a cute little brewery. We left the first round tied for first place. (three way tie). Ended up losing our lead in the second round, but had a great time. Beer was quite decent also.
Lots of rope for the cats to scratch on so they stay away from the furniture
ODC - 7/28/2022 - Rope or String
Cpl. Billy J. Masek holds security for his squad while they clear a building Nov. 4 during exercise Blue Chromite 15. Chromite demonstrates the Navy/Marine Corps’ amphibious and expeditionary capabilities from the sea. Masek, from Atlanta, Georgia, is a rifleman with 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines, currently assigned to 4th Marine Regiment under the unit deployment program.
(U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Cpl. Thor J. Larson/Released)
Hey guys! Just a heads up that I am going to be missing from action here in flickr for the next few days. I'm going on a photography trip that I'm super excited for. I'll keep to the location a surprise until you see the images. I'll catch up as soon as I can. Until then enjoy this lovely field that was a happy discovery tucked away in my lightroom catalog from April.
Tazewell County, Illinois
© Stacy Hanna | Please do not use without permission.
Like #mushrooms? Then you'll love this book in #bhlib The variety on this #bhlpod is particularly fun biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3274420
Histoire naturelle des champignons comestibles et vénéneux (1883), by G. Sicard. Pl. 49
Met Greg(frequent visitors to my stream already know that purple dude) & ran into John Asay!..It was nice to meet him.
Sorry for 2 posts in one day..you don't have to comment..but Greg wants me to post & I am heading out the door shortly myself so my good friend Eric has my permission to take over in my absence any mayhem that may break out...Nah! that never happens on my stream...lol!
Check out Johns photo
Check out Greg's photo
Immediately upon leaving the annual Parkville Microbrew Festival ( www.parkvillemicrobrewfest.com/ ), I grabbed my camera and shot this eastbound coal train headed towards KC. The park that this festival takes place in is adjacent to BNSF's St. Joe Sub, so attendees are afforded the opportunity to watch trains roll by all day while sipping down some of the region's best brews.
I have tried to photograph post boxes as the object in a variety of locations to show aspects of city life which would clearly place the boxes in an urban environment. As a body of work it would be clear it was London. It was more difficult than I thought as often the boxes were not in great locations or were obstructed or cluttered. Trying to take the shots in a short period of time too was a challenge and it would be better as a longer term project.
Having seen the dark moody skies yesterday,it was a must that i head off to the coast in search of a shot or two.
Wanting to head somewhere not to far,yet somewhere i had not really shot in some depth,i headed for the beach at Blyth which is home to several groynes,out flow pipes and assorted tank traps.
With the tide rushing in and very near its highest point,it was only right that having stripped and cleaned my tripod the night before,i would proceed to get it caked in saltwater and even worse covered in sand,within minutes of arriving.
I hate the noise of grating sand as you extend the legs and even more so the damage it does.
Any suggestions on a sand proof tripod? Mines going in the bath again today ready for tomorrow mornings shoot.I think i will stick to rocks tomorrow and give the sand a wide berth :)
EXIF....F22....1/8 SECOND....ISO 100....17MM....LEE 0.3 ND GRAD (HARD)
Location: Durant, Mississippi
Artist: Isidore Toberoff
Title: “Erosion, Reclamation and Conservation of the Soil”
Dated: 1942
© 2008 Steve Kelley
Wall Street viewed from Brooklyn Heights in Brooklyn, New York City the evening of the largest financial bailout in history.
To view all images in larger sizes and to download, purchase, or license please click here: Images of bridges in New York City...
HDR - Nikon d300
Silent Post it's a kidsplay , but we all play with the same everyday !
And sometimes is it not good ,if people talk bad about .......!
You must look a little bit longer to this picture ,
then you can see ..........!
If you want , make a notice , what you see ,in this picture.
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Tonka Andonov - Too late ♫
Need help / Listen and vote on You Tube - youtu.be/6qb_ersLsB0
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