Fifteenth abandoned photo: The salsa student

The salsa student, released on 25/03/2012

Gelatin silver print

I took this photo in La Habana, Cuba. The story of the image is so simple. The man is a street teacher of salsa, he's on the street catching tourists who want to learn how to dance salsa. Indeed, he has a lot of success, girls are always queuing for having a dance session with him! I find it very interesting because it's a perfect cliché of La Habana. Mmm...is it?


Sometimes when visiting a place for tourists, many people want to see the real culture of the place, not the clichés, but the real culture of the place.  And...What's the real culture of a place? What's a cliché? Is a cliché  part of the culture of a place? If we avoid looking for clichés, will we leave out part of the "real culture" of the place? 


Well, the 15th photo has been abandonded! I must say the image comes from a 120 mm film. Indeed, I printed the photo in the dark room and after such long and hard work the photo is on the streets! If you have found it, you know what to do! Leave a comment here below please!

The lost eleventh abandoned photo

Men and Moon

Status: lost!

A new lost photo, ouch! I left the photo "Men and moon" in a circuit for jogging. Usually people go jogging there with their dogs and I was afraid one of those canines might piss on the photo, specially because the photo was resting against a post. Who knows, maybe a dog can feel attraction for pissing on a photo! 

Well, the photo was there and I'm here waiting news about the photo. If you got it, please leave a comment on the blog!

P.S. HBDD!

Two lost images: the 9th and 10th abandoned photos

 "The wave"

Status: lost!

I have a broken leg and it stops me to go out for leaving photos on the street. That's the result of playing indoor football, definetivelly doing sport is very dangerous for health! Now I'm spending the time reading or "watching" books of photography and also thinking about a photographic task for the blog. But before doing something new, my leg has to be totally recovered. While it happens, I'll continue working on the blog and with the photos abandoned in the past months.

A popular proverb says "No one is a prophet in their own land", certainly it maybe has many interpretations, but for me, it means that achieving an aim in your place is harder than doing that in a faraway land. Any way, sometimes I think I own to many lands and I don't know what's the effect of the proverb on such situation. For the case of the abandon of the "The wave" and the "Sea and rocks" photos, the popular wisdom could be true. Those photos were abandonded in one of "my" lands and I don't know nothing about them! I don't know if someone found them! Well, I'm positive, they should be at a good place but the owner of each photo doesn't want to tell me that.

"Sea and rocks"

Status: lost!

The two lost photos depict water, the sea...water. And the photos were abandoned in a city with much water. There isn't a beach in the place, no, no, no; but the rain usually falls on that city, it's a extremely rainy city. Actually, I took care of leaving the photos on the street on a sunny day to avoid  rain and a consequent damage of the printed photo or the frame because of the water. But the care was in vain, when I just left the photos the sky became cloudy and it started to rain! I thought it was part of the game and it's impossible to beat the Mother Earth. So, I covered the framed photo with a plastic bag and hoped someone took the photo soon. I must say the same story happended for the 2 photos! Did you save any photo from the rain? If you did, please leave a comment on the blog!