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A JOURNEY INTO THE HEART OF ROCK´N´ROLL
2006 - 2012
Luckily I could
sign up for this bombing. Me I purified the Holy and damn rock´n´roll,
aware, many years ago, that was their destiny that definitely before
succumbing to his power and evil magic. Enjoy and photograph the scene
of rockabilly, here in Spain, in this first decade of the 21st century,
as well as a luxury, is being quite a challenge and an experience very
intense, absorbing and committed. Another way to lose me while
continued looking for me with the camera hanging around my neck. The
rock´n´roll is pure life, as someone once said...
35mm series © Antonio Alay
ROCKERS, HEPCATS & TEDDY BOYS
2006 - 2012
The experience of
knowing and sharing friendship with personalities from the rockin'
scene has leaded me to recover the practice of studio portrait. The
square format stimulates again my sense of vision and accelerates my
heart beats per minute: the faces and shapes, the gestures, the look,
the complex postures, the natural lightning and the artificial one too.
Living again the magic ritual of doing photography in the classic way
as I learned, and in color, as I had never done before, chasing film
influences in which the color defines the aesthetics of the image.
Rockers, pin up girls, tattooists, burlesque dancers, musicians,
bikers, DJ's, hotrodders... passionate lovers of both, original
rock'n'roll and the 50's culture.
| Rockin´ Spain: un viaje
al corazón del Rock´n´Roll. Producido y Dirigido por Antonio
Alay Publicado por Lunwerg Editores. ISBN: 978-84-9785-732-1 Fecha de publicación: 17- 5 - 2011 320 páginas. Formato: 23 x 23 cm. Encuadernación: Tapa dura ( cartoné ) . Incluye Rockin´ Spain, el disco CD Producido por Marcos Sendarrubias y publicado por Sleazy Records |
Finalista
Hasselblad Masters Awards 2012 Rockers - Fotografías de Antonio Alay |
RUNNIN´ NEW YORK
2007
Five days in New York
to inject a new vital experience to me. The hyperactivity of the
geometric city put me under a rate without rest, while I would eat
noddles and sleep with the sound track of the 7th Avenue: works, fan
coolers and permanent traffic. I walked with an established itinerary
but with the strange sensation of not going anywhere. This is a story
of silences and friendships, a series of images about a strange journey
against the clock, non-stop watching...
35mm series © Antonio Alay
THE LAST TRAVEL TO CUBA
2006
Angel Moliní, a friend
and partner from my teenage days, to whom I must be grateful for having
influenced me in my earliest days of learning photography, is the main
character in this cuban adventure. We met together along his friends
and therapists at La Habana, and after a couple of days we started an
amazing journey to Viñales. Beers, congrí and more beers... This report
is a tribute in his memory. Rest in peace, mate.
A WALK IN MARRAKECH
2006
35mm series © Antonio Alay
A WALK IN MARRAKECH
2006
However,
is at dusk, with the sun starting to fall, when the square gets its
entire personality and the whole city starts its frenetic activity,
invaded by acrobats, gibraltar monkeys, dancers, Rif musicians, water
carriers, spicer men, charm sellers, trinket sellers, dentures and
teeth sellers: highlanders of the Atlas, people of the south, donkeys
carriages, twisting mobylettes, cabs, screams, smoke clouds from the
food stands, chillin' snails and smilin' japaneses. ¡Holy chaos!.
35mm series © Antonio Alay
IN TOKIO WITH LA EXCEPCIÓN
2005
The
spanish hip hop trio La Excepción was traveling to Japan to make a gig
at Expo Universal Aichi, in Nagoya. Ten days before, we had a "bolo" at
the Sala Duo in Tokyo, property of Jamiroquai. Joe Alonso and I were
The Eyestorm S.L. by those days, and we joined the band to make visuals
for the gigs of the Pan Bendito's trio. Furthermore, Joe added the
making of a documentary film to our routine. Photography, interviews,
records... spaces, fragrances, images... long walks, sashimi and some
crabs in the world's biggest lounge!
35mm series © Antonio Alay
INTO THE LABERYNTH: THE LOST SIGHTS
1997 - 2003
In front of photographs
of Alay, the spectator evokes the expressionistic frame of David Lynch,
its eroticism, its mystery, that lejania and proximity at the same
time, a visual hypnosis behind the vital maze. It seems that Antonio
Alay because the same psychogenic fugue which Lynch was in lost highway
but which, instead of using a Panavision uses a Hasselblad. (
Olvido Andujar, Madrid 2004 )
Retratos 6x6 © Antonio Alay
PORTRAITS 5x7" & 6x7cms.
1994 - 1996
Photographing
a face is like photographing an idea. In the studio, the concept of
image is quite simple: through the expression, the shapes and gestures,
the lights and colors, the wine that you drink and the music you
listen... that creates an atmosphere that transmits the appropriate
calm and tension to experience the snatch wanted vision, or at least
this is the purpose. By then, I believed to overcome some of my fears
photographing them... Nothing better than a photo exorcism to get rid
of what, on the other hand, was giving me life...
Retratos 6x7 & 5"x7" © Antonio
Alay
EXPREFORMS
1991 - 1995
The
man decided to turn into Cyclops. Merge his eyes in a photographic lens
allowing him to create his own visual proposal. Seduced by the moments
pregnantes of Bill Brandt, undertook the journey to the world of
shadows. An itinerary in search of an acknowledgement of his
manipulative self-belief of the object. Moving away from the plausible
realist, found in expressionist images valid game of contrasts for the
elemental distortion. Nothing is further from the photographic
automatism that careful composition, the study of the position of the
subject and treatment of its forms, and the perfect Cadence of the
violadora light of obscurities. The control of the images and their
contents is its potential form of power, the language of a creator
become voyeur... (
Fina
Fabra, Valencia 1996 )
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