{"id":8009,"date":"2021-05-05T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T04:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/?p=8009"},"modified":"2021-05-04T11:36:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T15:36:27","slug":"hablar-es-complicado-fotografiar-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/hablar-es-complicado-fotografiar-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking is complicated, photographing is not"},"content":{"rendered":"

I like music since I was a child. I remember my grandmother listening Damsel Charming<\/em>, I think that is the most distant memory that I have. Then they bought my brother a double-cassette recorder and there began a kind of traffic: they got cassettes, they recorded. My dad liked Led Zeppelin, The Beatles and all the rock he listened to in his youth, although later he liked hip hop. I was very young and he gave me my first cassette. It was from Eros Ramazzotti.<\/p>\n

Then, when I was 10 years old, I went one afternoon with my father to buy a CD player that a friend sold him and that came with a special edition of the album love songs<\/em> (The Rocket Record Company, 1995)\u200e by Elton John, and another album with the single Live Like Horses,<\/em> with Luciano Pavarotti. I still remember the feeling the moment the song started Sacrifice: It's a human sign when things go wrong\u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sometimes I listen to that song and I bristle, it transports me to that moment 20 years ago. Today I listen to music all the time when I'm at home. The genres vary, they depend on the mood, they take me everywhere. I'm going to another place with Mar\u00eda Teresa Vera: I don't know, baby, what happened to me when I first saw you...<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Ana

Ana Mar\u00eda Ochoa, 2020. Photo: Evelyn Sosa Rojas.<\/p><\/div>\n

Despite this closeness to music, I have never set out to make a photographic series on musicians. These portraits have happened spontaneously. Singing is difficult for Ana Mar\u00eda Ochoa, or at least for me it is difficult for her to sing; Anna, sing!<\/em>, then there, sitting in the living room of my house, Ana Mar\u00eda sings I've got, <\/em>by Marta Vald\u00e9s, with that incredible voice. I like it when it says: fat thing<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"Mart\u00edn

Mart\u00edn Moya, 2018. Photo: Evelyn Sosa Rojas.<\/p><\/div>\n

Ana told me one day that Mart\u00edn and I were ancient gentlemen, the only ones she knew. Mart\u00edn is a special boy, he has a dragon tattooed on his back and if you close your eyes you might think you are talking to an old man. I met him at Ana's house, where I also met Antonio and Sandro.<\/p>\n

\"Sandro

Sandro \/ BeutNoise, 2018. Photo: Evelyn Sosa Rojas.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Antonio

Antonio Milan\u00e9s, 2018. Photo: Evelyn Sosa Rojas.<\/p><\/div>\n

That day they talked about perfect pitch and someone said that he would end up playing in the Charanga Habanera; while Sandro commented that to have sex you had to listen to music that had a lot of bass. There I also saw La Chirri for the first time and, well, La Chirri is La Chirri.<\/p>\n

\"La

La Chirri and Camilo, 2019. Photo: Evelyn Sosa Rojas.<\/p><\/div>\n

I met Kike when I was 16 years old. He was my cousin's boyfriend, he was studying music and he walked around with a head full of dreadlocks<\/em> and a trunk. Kike is like family. One day at the Bertolt Brecht Cultural Center he took me to the dressing room and introduced me to the boys from Toques del R\u00edo. I photographed them before and after playing. The dressing room is one of those places that I prefer to take photos.<\/p>\n

\"Kike

Kike from Toques del R\u00edo, 2019. Photo: Evelyn Sosa Rojas.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"El

The Blood of Toques del R\u00edo, 2019. Photo: Evelyn Sosa Rojas.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Ismel

Ismel de Toques del R\u00edo, 2019. Photo: Evelyn Sosa Rojas.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Manuel

Manuel de Toques del R\u00edo, 2019. Photo: Evelyn Sosa Rojas.<\/p><\/div>\n

In a rehearsal at Danay's house I met V\u00edctor, whom Danay's grandmother told him was very ugly. He seemed half crazy to me but I only had to listen to him play the piano to think that he is neither ugly nor crazy. Pupo, El Pencil and Cepero were also there. I owe Cepe some photos from almost a year ago when they did a rap Open Mic in Old Havana. Xiomis is Cepe's sister, she is a doctor and rapper, and lives in Cienfuegos.<\/p>\n

\"V\u00edctor

V\u00edctor Campbell, 2019. Photo: Evelyn Sosa Rojas.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Jes\u00fas

Jes\u00fas Pupo, 2019. Photo: Evelyn Sosa Rojas.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"El

The Pencil, 2019. Photo: Evelyn Sosa Rojas.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"El

The Cepe, 2019. Photo: Evelyn Sosa Rojas.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Xiomi,

Xiomi, 2019. Photo: Evelyn Sosa Rojas.<\/p><\/div>\n

I photographed Ra\u00fal and Diana in a room where they were preparing to play at a party. I didn't know them, I snuck in. These portraits are the result of the way I like to communicate. I have met all these musicians with the camera in hand. Speaking is difficult for me, but photographing is not.<\/p>\n

\"Ra\u00fal

Ra\u00fal Zapata, 2019. Photo: Evelyn Sosa Rojas.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Diana

Diana Osumy Sainz, 2019. Photo: Evelyn Sosa Rojas.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Frank

Frank Jim\u00e9nez, 2019. Photo: Evelyn Sosa Rojas.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Tony

Tony Olaz, 2020. Photo: Evelyn Sosa Rojas.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Mar\u00eda,

Maria, 2019. Photo: Evelyn Sosa Rojas.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite my closeness to music, I have never set out to make a photographic series about musicians. I have met all of these with the camera in hand. So these portraits have happened spontaneously. They are the result of the way I like to communicate. <\/p>","protected":false},"author":1523,"featured_media":8010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1765],"tags":[8237,77,5951,8291],"coauthors":[8292],"class_list":["post-8009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reportajes","tag-evelyn-sosa","tag-fotografia","tag-galeria","tag-musicos-jovenes-cubanos"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazineampm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Evelyn-Sosa-Galeria.jpg?fit=1520%2C690&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1523"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8009"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}