To Jim.P
I don’t mind you don’t like “Los EMO Kids” nothing at all, in my case I love your comments. Don’t delete BURN from your bookmarks; you’re a perfect catalyst and great stimulus to the discussion. Love.

To Ms. Rosa
The gear for “Los EMO Kids” was a Nikon D70 with a 35mm prime lens open wide.

To Jan
Ohh, Jan, I think I have to read several times your longest post. I’m not native English reader, so it takes me more time to think and reflect about your post. Thanks for the time. We have to talk about your impressive work at Gunkanjima. I’ll send you a e-mail soon.

To Biel, Gustavo and Fragan.
Gracias por vuestros comentarios. Ha sido genial compartir con vosotros el workshop.

Goth & Emo stuff.
It seems that there are different uses of the term EMO depending the part of the world you are. Anyway I think there is a very thin line between them. Goth kids in Spain are somewhat different, apart of the black costumes and their pale faces, we see or think about them more close to Epic Fantasy and also to manga culture. Many people, wrongly i think, refer to them as Otaku, but this term hasn’t the same meaning as in Japan, scorn and related to be a maniac. We refer to EMO, on a basic level, to more sophisticated look guys.

As I’ve said before, a real pleasure to follow your comments. See you at BURN.

Cheers

David G.

Amen!

PS: back later…

best,

To me though; it doesn’t say “Emo”, but it does say “Fancy dressed teenagers, perfectly eye lined, and tight jeans”. Here in New Zealand Emos are more goth like (or maybe goth-lite!!) than depicted here.

Cheers

You viewed this photo and that´s how you read the expressions..nothing to be sorry for. There´s very little light on these faces and very few clues that tell us how to read them. Maybe these kids WERE smirking and sneering..hard to really tell with the blur and grain. But that´s what´s really nice about this photograph. It´s connotative, not denotative. We get a few clues, we interpret them our way. I was aided by my previous experience with kids like this but if i didn´t know better i would probably have been somewhat intimidated by their cool aura and read the expressions the same way you did.

DAH

I was not angry above. I have been angry here once and upset twice. I was frustrated last night because these essays and photographs get shuffled off to buffalo in favor of trying to talk somebody into seeing things differently, which never happens, ever. It really seems to be a diversionary tactic to give us something to do, including me! So why not just let this person be, let him come here and be happy, love or hate the photos for his own imponderable reasons while we also focus on the photos and essays, each in our own right or left brained way? My outbirst was a product of late night passion but i´m not really sorry. I like this person and think he has just as much right to be, well the way hs is, as we do to be the way we are. It´s all good!

all the best to Madrid!
kathie

i think my problema here is that the Goths and Emos tend to mix and match..they are friendly with each other, at least that´s how it seems to my totally out-of-the-loop eye. They all seem to have piercings, faces half covered by hair (but then, i was a hippie and it wasn´t that much different), chains are a big part of the package, stripey tinted hair, lots of times blue, pink, red or purple and very cool, clothing..often black but also little pleated skirts and converse sneakers and stuf..they seem to have their leaders who are REALLY cool and, well, whatever they are, they sure are good people. That´s pretty much all i know.

there are a number of street portraits of ¨my¨ Emo/Goth kids here:

http://altphotos.com/Gallery.aspx?&a=MemberGallery&memberid=1319

thanks for elaborating, Katia. It´s interesting how the song remains the same regardless of the country, eh?

bestest:
kathie-

I am never and ever angry here. (I was for Panos one time long time ago)
Mostly I am happy. :)
Sometimes I am sad. (just sometimes)
Sometimes I am tired.(rare)

We should put more smiles into comments.

:)

Today my wife bought me three velvias (Treasure!).
IF I am a photographer I should made a few frames tomorrow.

peace and joy :)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/robert_m_johnson/1486448440/sizes/o/

Jim, I am your age and I personally plan on exploring new thoughts/ideas and technology as they arrive during the coming years. Are you really locking into a thought process that was developed by you years ago? No room left in you brain for new ways of seeing the world?

Thanks for the link, in return, please check out this Mangnum link.

http://expression.magnumphotos.com/expression_award/index.php?p=the_theme

The theme is Community and I immediately thought of you.

Best wishes,

Mike.

you could always get a wig.

http://www.wigfx.co.nz/images/emosm.jpg

;))

“more content, posted more frequently”….. well, we post new content every day amigo…are you suggesting twice a day???…can’t make it dude…not unless you jump in and help us out…you just gave me a headache….

cheers, david

Best wishes,

Emo Mike.