Comments on: Miguel Angel Sánchez – Ulu Pamir https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/04/miguel-angel-sanchez-ulu-pamir/ burn is an online feature for emerging photographers worldwide. burn is curated by magnum photographer david alan harvey. Sat, 18 Jun 2016 11:25:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.4 By: panos skoulidas https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/04/miguel-angel-sanchez-ulu-pamir/#comment-138846 Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:15:04 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=15767#comment-138846 im also 100% covered by Bobus!

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By: pAtrIcIO m. https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/04/miguel-angel-sanchez-ulu-pamir/#comment-138261 Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:17:56 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=15767#comment-138261 @ ANTON:

Well I do not know where to post this… Today, April 7th, is DA opening of Yakuza in Belgium. Wish I can be there… not possible today, but it will be for the next one… Have a great day wiht friends and other photographers. What is your feeling about hanging that long term project and big images, in the wall near your home in Hasselt?

A très bientôt!
P.

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By: Jeff Hladun https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/04/miguel-angel-sanchez-ulu-pamir/#comment-138246 Sun, 07 Apr 2013 11:49:40 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=15767#comment-138246 Thanks for the clarification, Bill; it was lazy nomenclature on my part.

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By: Frostfrog https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/04/miguel-angel-sanchez-ulu-pamir/#comment-138075 Sat, 06 Apr 2013 19:23:47 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=15767#comment-138075 It reminds me greatly of certain early 20th portraiture works I have seen of west and northwest Alaska Native people shot by Edward S. Curtis and some others whose names now evade – except that the lighting is more dramatic here.

I found the entire work superb. It speaks strongly to me. I would take issue with Jeff’s closing sentence -these are not “costumes.” This is the traditional dress of the people, whether they wear it all the time or not.

Then there is the final portrait, tagged on at the end of images that seem to be of peace. Strong statement.

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By: Imants https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/04/miguel-angel-sanchez-ulu-pamir/#comment-138040 Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:14:28 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=15767#comment-138040 seduction by technique all a bit doi knia

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By: Herve https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/04/miguel-angel-sanchez-ulu-pamir/#comment-138029 Sat, 06 Apr 2013 13:23:13 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=15767#comment-138029 Maybe the pictorial age old technique praised by many, but it is all strangely lifeless and a bit listless too, only #12 (splendid) and 16 have something coming from the subject where the photographer is confronted in an actual way.

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By: john gladdy https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/04/miguel-angel-sanchez-ulu-pamir/#comment-137979 Sat, 06 Apr 2013 07:27:07 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=15767#comment-137979 Until I looked at the website I was sort of going for these (although my main interest was in wondering how I would have acheived this setup/look), then I got bored very very quickly. Repetition.
Dont get me wrong; its a lovely balanced setup. 10 out of 10. go to the top of the class.
And there are some lovely models (for thats what they are being used as here) to work with.

but..

The first thing I ever remember learning from the photographer I studied under was the saying

” A perfectly exposed picture of nothing is still just a picture of nothing”

It has always stayed as my main focus(pun intended).

I prefer how serrano did his homeless set, which was essentially gorilla shooting with a portable studio rig as well, but Juxtaposed with his Klan portraits it had real power and no real stylistic
signature muscling in on the experience. Or the simplicity of seido keita’s portrait work.

and echoing what jeff said; this has nothing to do with the statement made. Not least because it just looks like everything else on the authors site.
Anyways..
Just my morning coffee’s worth. Please feel free to ignore :))

John.

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By: Jeff Hladun https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/04/miguel-angel-sanchez-ulu-pamir/#comment-137919 Fri, 05 Apr 2013 23:28:04 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=15767#comment-137919 Plenty of Goya, El Greco and Rembrandt in here as well.

Great, great portraits. The mystery in the essay is driven mostly by the lighting, also by the exotic costumery and the rough, rugged interiors. It’s mystery-through-technique and maybe even through style, but I find myself asking no questions, no need to go any further into the series. This is something not usually happening to me in the face of greater mysteries from bigger, more ambitious stories.

As a series of portraits I’m entirely satisfied, although the idea of portraying “their will to preserve their roots and traditions” needs more than just costumes, as fascinating as they may be.

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By: Gordon Lafleur https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/04/miguel-angel-sanchez-ulu-pamir/#comment-137878 Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:11:00 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=15767#comment-137878 Yah, what Bob said.

Thanks yet once again Bob Black, for being able to put into words what many of us are feel when all we can manage is “that’s awesome”.

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By: andrew b. https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/04/miguel-angel-sanchez-ulu-pamir/#comment-137868 Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:06:43 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=15767#comment-137868 Love the treatment of light and the aesthetic.

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By: bob black https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/04/miguel-angel-sanchez-ulu-pamir/#comment-137829 Fri, 05 Apr 2013 12:05:35 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=15767#comment-137829 Just gorgeous!…and yes, Caravaggio is appropriate and seems to be an inspiration with the entirety of Miguel’s aesthetic :)))…

but what i really love about this series (and all the work on his website) is that he reimagines both portratiture and document, or rather marries and conflates the too…to pull from the waking world of document and plant into the aestheticized and often ‘detached’ world of portraiture to mix a marriage of both than both elevates and challenges the assumptions of both document and portrait/art….

in other words, the stillness of portraiture and the river-rife of stuff that is environmentally document…this is very powerful in the series on Palestine (havent seen that kind of ‘documentary’ portraiture of Palestinians yet)…

and i love the humor overriding most of the ‘nobility’ of these portraits…and, as always, the maps of history contained upon the parchment of our faces…

spectacularly beautiful and thoughtful work…

congratulations and thanks for sharing! :))

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By: Eliseo Barbàra https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/04/miguel-angel-sanchez-ulu-pamir/#comment-137812 Fri, 05 Apr 2013 09:43:15 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=15767#comment-137812 Wonderful

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By: skiwaves https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/04/miguel-angel-sanchez-ulu-pamir/#comment-137684 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:39:39 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=15767#comment-137684 Beautifully done, and all shot in vertical.
Like it.

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By: Harry https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/04/miguel-angel-sanchez-ulu-pamir/#comment-137655 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 18:03:44 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=15767#comment-137655 Beautiful.

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By: Gordon Lafleur https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/04/miguel-angel-sanchez-ulu-pamir/#comment-137642 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:51:08 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=15767#comment-137642 Oh my. This is utterly flat out spectacular. I’m in awe Miguel.

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By: Carlo https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/04/miguel-angel-sanchez-ulu-pamir/#comment-137630 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:06:22 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=15767#comment-137630 Beautiful work Miguel Angel. These are like paintings….Love the shadows and mood in all of these.
With a good printer they will look amazing!
CONGRATS!

One question and hopefully you will be answering ;-)
What was your light set up? you mention in your artist statement a “tortuous path” getting there I assume?
that’s why I’m asking….must be minimal given the circumstances….

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By: tonyhayesimages https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/04/miguel-angel-sanchez-ulu-pamir/#comment-137618 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 15:08:12 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=15767#comment-137618 Love that lighting. Reminds me of Caravaggio, especially images 4, 10, 17 and 18. Image 19 is also great.

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By: Andy Gray https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/04/miguel-angel-sanchez-ulu-pamir/#comment-137614 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:29:15 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=15767#comment-137614 The first photo left me smiling — in the way I respond to something beautiful and human. The the six photos continued to hold me rapt with attention loving the textures and, again, the simply human display. I would love to see these in print (and have one). Starting from number 7 or 8, instead of surprising me, the images become repetitive. Beautiful but less captivating than the first six. I was glad when the last image caused me to smile again.

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