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Berlin 2.0 Exhibition: 28.01.10 - 25.03.10
Kultpur- Muskauer Strasse 47 - Kreuzberg - Berlin
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About Berlin 2.0
"The woman who has all ocean inside her eyes –like those boats inside of bottles, I never understood how they do it- asked me to write a few words about my exhibition. Well, it is quite difficult to explain something about your own ‘artwork’. I only can say that if anybody wants to know where, when or why I took these pictures, I couldn’t answer it. I’m interested in the present, not in the past. The postcards are the past, and I don’t like the postcards. I had been in Berlin with my camera a few times before I decided to move. When I am on the way –in fact the way itself is the project of my artistic career- I really love not to use any map. I hate maps / I love to be lost when I arrive somewhere. Maybe, because the real love only exists at the first look and after that, when the surprise is finished (¿1/125, 1/8, B shutter speed…later?), you can’t get anything more. Photography is like poetry: everyone must find the accent to express a beautiful image or, at least, to draw all that no one saw before with a camera or with a pen - it’s the same. However, sad but real, when you get it, that image won’t exist anymore. So, don’t ask to me where, when or why I found this or that inspiration, it doesn’t matter. I found it on the way, that’s all. Enjoy with me, then, these pictures that we won’t see again. We are living already in Berlin 2.0..
Rafa Gassó is a spanish photographer and journalist over 10 years work in-the-field to main Media. After travel like a special correspondent from Algeria, to visit the saharaui’s refugee camps, to Ciudad Juárez, where women are murdered since beginning of 90’s, also Iran, Jordan, Egypt..., he left his job like a editor in Chief in a Sunday supplement of ABC newspaper and dedicated one year to travel in Morocco, South East Asia, India and Nepal to acquire extensive knowledge of other cultures. Since November 2009 he is living in Berlin to dedicate full time, definitely, to photography.
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