Today's guest was Laura Rodriguez from Chicago. Her artist statement remains published on the schedule page of our blog.
Laura had become a photographer since retiring and traveling to more than 50 countries in the past few years. While her focus has shifted as she traveled, her overriding themes have been people and nature. Today she showed pictures highlighting those themes and expressing the narrative of what she captured digitally. Her pictures reflected the human vs nature scale and, in her portraits, the cultural ethos of the people. After her presentation, the discussion was lead off with the comment about the privilege of photography we enjoy as we travel...allowing to convey the message of the cultures we encounter....and doing it in "real time" through our social media sites. Several expressed interest in following Laura's posts on Facebook....you can contact her at [email protected] Also discussed was the effect of extensive travel on her visual aesthetics and cultural view. Below is a sampling of Laura's images she discussed today:
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Jim Staub
11/20/2014 04:53:11 am
I enjoyed the visit to the f8 group by photographer, Laura Rodriguez. She conveyed her interest in people and their cultures and country, through her camera.. Her images and personal reflections on the circumstances surrounding the photos added much to this type of photography. I found it fascinating that, despite her many distant travels to capture these terrific moments, Laura made her favorite photograph right in her own backyard of Chicago!
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