Comments on: joao pina – shadow of the condor

By: selfalee

selfalee — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 03:25:21 +0000

Powerful!
Thank you to add one another fine thing to our dirty world.
Many points i appreciated in this project, but i want to write about the frames which really touched me. The images of “places”.
When i saw all these faces (portraits of victims) parallel with places, it makes the story pure and honest. Not just because it is more documentary, because it necessitates the viewer to take a deep look at a very usual place or item (an airplane or a bathroom etc.).

#01 #04 #07 and #20 was really touched me.

By: John

John — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 08:50:09 +0000

Really glad to find you in here João. Been following this project for years and can’t wait for its completion. All the best for the final stage.

By: Carlo

Carlo — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:46:01 +0000

I can feel the terror and fear in some of these…
growing up in south america I will hear stories about this sort of thing.
unmarked black cars with the lights off stopping people at night for questions, abductions and more…
seeing it here like this puts an image to my memories.
This is one of those essays where everything works…. Images, text, execution…it’s all there.
Very well done Joao! Congratulations!

By: carlos filipe

carlos filipe — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 09:02:49 +0000

JOÃO,
nice to see your work here in Burn. and also happy to find a portuguese photographer in here. keep up with your great work. congratulations.

ALL,
for those who don’t know, João Pina is a member of the portuguese collectif Kameraphoto. go to http://www.kameraphoto.com/index.php?lang=en to find out more and to see the work of the twelve photographers and also their collective projects.

TYPO CORRECTIONS:
His images have been published in (…) Visão and others.
Visão is a portuguese weekly magazine.

He has also been awarded the Estação Imagem grant in 2010 (…)
Estação Imagem is a cultural association in Portugal responsible for the annual prize in photojournalism. you can see the work selected since 2010 at http://www.estacao-imagem.com/ (click in prémio, and choose different categories and years).

um forte abraço,
Carlos Filipe

By: Frostfrog

Frostfrog — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:22:52 +0000

Excellent, powerful, informative work about subject that back in those days we heard and read so many conflicting reports of US quilt and righteousness. I look forward to the compilation of the best and most informative photos, coupled with the knowledge you have gained and the opnions you will reached at the completion of your 7 year project.

Just out of curiosity, if you are into answering questions, what motivated you to seek funding through Emphas.is rather thank Kickstarter?

By: pAtrIcIO m.

pAtrIcIO m. — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 20:48:49 +0000

Joao wonderful work! Congrats to be published here on Burn and congrats for reaching the goal in Emphasis, you can go forward to finished the projet.

Thinking about this subject there is also a good work of another photographer called Giancarlo CERAUDO “Destino Final”

http://giancarlo-ceraudo.photoshelter.com/gallery/destino-final/G00006WDBAY6G4iU/

Abrazo
Patricio

By: Harry

Harry — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 12:50:39 +0000

I like this a lot.

By: lisa hogben

lisa hogben — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 11:12:27 +0000

Potent and evocative…great work….

By: Gordon Lafleur

Gordon Lafleur — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 05:47:01 +0000

mw, sorry, but from the perspective of non-Americans, politics in the US is either right or extreme right. There is no left, or even middle.

I visited both Argentina and Chile in the seventies, especially in Chile, the fear on ordinary people’s faces was un-believable. What horror.

From Teddy Roosevelt to the present day, American foreign policy has been brutal, dirty, ugly business.

Congratulations Joao, wonderful work.

By: hernan zenteno

hernan zenteno — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 22:45:25 +0000

Hi, about the comments I want to point that the characteristic of the work tha Joao is doing is about south american dictatorships. And one of the most important things to consider, apart of what side each of us can take to interpret the work, is that the government used all the system to do the crimes. A guerrilla or some politic groups from both sides, left, right, did crimes. But what is terrible about what Joao is documenting is that the government authorities did crimes like steal babies from prisioners that were kidnapped, tortured and killed. This is a big difference. In two days end his Emphas.is application to get crow found the last phase of his project. this is the link
http://www.emphas.is/web/guest/discoverprojects?projectID=707

By: bob black

bob black — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 16:43:47 +0000

Joao! :))

“In this world of ours, a world of powerful centers and subjugated outposts, there is no wealth that must not be held in some suspicion.” ― Eduardo Galeano

the rhyming of the light in the outstretched arms of the shadow….

so happy to see this here Joao :))…nothing to write now, just this:

if you haven’t already, PLEASE read Roberto Bolano’s ‘By Night in chile’….

for me, the finest short book on this issue (along with Bolano’s ‘Distant Star’, which is an evisceration of the heart)….

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/By_Night_In_Chile

happy to see u here

hugs
b

By: mw

mw — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 16:09:28 +0000

Working with the Cuban military to torture and kill opponents wasn’t part of Operation Condor.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 16:06:40 +0000

MW…

Good point and very true. Although I was also thinking of Cuba and Castro…

By: mw

mw — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 16:03:35 +0000

Well Paul, if you consider the U.S. Democrats and Republicans to be left and right wing, this is an essay depicting horrors both left and right have perpetrated.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 15:10:42 +0000

Interesting work and even though it doesn’t really matter, the use of a Hasselblad medium format camera does give it a different aura, everything slows down compared to 35mm. Interesting how this is essay is published just as David’s preparing his Roadtrip with his 6×7 camera.
Having a profound hatred for anything generally political I am always amused how people take sides depending on their political views. But why not just an essay on all the horrors BOTH the right wing and the left wing military governments have caused in the last sixty years?