Truth When Soul Meets Body

Truth When Soul Meets Body, originally uploaded by Lucia Rojas.

“I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.”
-Mary Ellen Mark-

Soul Meets Body

Taken with Asahi Pentax 6x7

R.I.P. Roy Decarava

"I want to express that moment when a man going to work has meaning for that man and for me, not the fragment of the whole but the expression that sets it apart for all men going to work at that given moment, when that man ceases being one man and becomes all men."
-Roy Decarava-


Roy Decarava is one of my favorite documentary photographers. With him I travel in N.Y. to the world of jazz that I adore... with him I get to meet all of his subjects while also looking at them from the sidelines. It's like I can touch them with my eyes... without ever intruding. He leaves an amazing body of work.

Homenaje a Alda Merini

WE 2 R 1, originally uploaded by Lucia Rojas.

Amore,
vola da me
con l'aeroplano di carta
della mia fantasia,
con l'ingegno del tuo sentimento.
Vedrai fiorire terre piene di magia
e io sarò la chioma d'albero più alta
per darti frescura e riparo.
Fa' delle due braccia
due ali d'angelo
e porta anche a me un po' di pace
e il giocattolo del sogno.
Ma prima di dirmi qualcosa
guarda il genio in fiore
del mio cuore.


Alda Merini, da "Alla tua salute, amore mio"

“Words can make a deeper scar than silence can heal”

Scar, originally uploaded by Lucia Rojas.

“There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.”
-Harry Crews-

Elementos de Génesis

Never alone, originally uploaded by Lucia Rojas.

The best thing about change is that something always inevitably ends and that leaves the door open for new beginnings. Sometimes things have to start all over again, as if they were brand new.

Elementos de Integracion

Whitechapel Station, originally uploaded by Lucia Rojas.

It is funny how it works. For months you go on thinking you are not going to make it through another day, not like this. Then all of a sudden you wake up one day and everything has changed. The hole in your heart is not there anymore. You are over it.

This picture was taken with a Holga @ Whitechapel Tube Station in London

Elementos de dispersion

Elementos de dispersion, originally uploaded by Lucia Rojas.

Sometimes you can actually feel things as they shift and change. You know you are going to come out transformed. And they said people don't change... but you know it is not true. You know it because you are living it.

Cumbia en San Jacinto

Cumbia en San Jacinto, originally uploaded by Lucia Rojas.

Cumbia is a Colombian musical style and folk dance that is considered to be representative of the country. Cumbia began as a courtship dance practiced among the slave population in hidden places away from their owners. In San Jacinto, The way the cumbia is danced is probably one of the purest of the country. The woman is always very dignified representing the indigenous side, and the man has much more of a hot-party role representing the black side. Traditionally the woman will hold a candle, because the places were they used to hide to dance were very dark... Feet are always dragged on the floor, because the slaves had chains on their feet, which didn't allow them to properly move.

In the dance the man is trying to court the woman, and the woman sort of flirts back, but never gives in completely... you never touch each other in the Cumbia...but when you are properly dancing it, you should never take your eyes of your partner... and you get very close without ever touching. (I find it extremely sensual ;) )

Barullo

Barullo

Parcour

Parcour! I love it!

Body Language - London, June 2009

Shooting with Elisa, an Italian dancer who lives in London, was so much fun! I have always loved dance so I was dying to shoot with a dancer and Elisa delivered in every possible way :) I am really pleased with the results.

Autumn Complementary

Model: Lara Izagirre
Make-up & styling: Lucia Rojas

Headless Fashion

Model: Alexandra

Light & Dark

I have always been fascinated by the intricate corners of the human mind and all the opposites within it. I will always wonder why we choose what we choose and which side weighs more at the time of these decisions. One small change in the choices we make can change our lives completely.

It is amazing that we make these choices with such lack of awareness... in such a disconnected manner, letting the opposites within our minds take hold of our destiny and barely watching as it happens.