Photographic Inspiration: Chema Madoz
So unfortunately the Guest Writer portion for this week kind of fell through. However I have excellent guests lined up for the next couple weeks and they have all confirmed their posts will be ready 🙂 So in place of the Guest blog section I thought I would share with you guys another one of my inspirations when it comes to master photographers. This is one who most probably haven’t heard of, yet he has such astonishing work that continues to inspire me each time I browse through his brilliant portfolio.
His name is Chema Madoz, and he is a Spanish Photographer now in his mid 60’s. He does surrealist fine art photos with old cameras like the Hasselblad. His work absolutely blows me away with the level of creativeness and ingenious sarcasm and humor he implies as he sets out to prove that not everything is what it seems to be. Every single photo he has shares a significant story, which draws you in until you realize you’ve been starring at the same image for the last 45 minutes. His images bring to mind the mystery and enjoyment of an old vaudeville act, where only on this stage would you see something so absurd yet so beautiful. His work brings together elements of elegance, mystery, magic and humor to make some of the most outstanding and interesting fine art Ive ever came across. He focuses on simplicity, and often times leaves me with the inevitable thought of “why didn’t I think of that”.
Here is his Website
If you understand Spanish here is a six part interview with Chema. Each part is only around 3 minutes in length.
(Even if you don’t understand what is being said (like me) watch it with the sound off and enjoy the slide of pics they play during the interview)
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6 – He shows is studio in this one and you can see how truly creative he is.
I can’t wait to hear your thoughts on Chema! I hope he inspires you as much as he has me.
I love this… I’m off to his website. And I have the same reaction: “Why didn’t I think of doing this?” Thank you.
Exactly Kate! I seen his image of the tennis ball with two holes for ying and yang today and was dumb founded by the simplicity!
Amazing. Thank you for sharing this guys ingenious work. 😀
Isn’t it absolutely STUNNING!! He expresses brilliance, and I truly hope its contagious, because I could use all that I can get 😉
Me too. But if it were like the common cold, we would not appreciate the brilliance. His is a special light. It’s just 1:22pm here on the west coast.
Yea your right. Brilliance like that may be hard to handle.
Oh, I did watch the videos and they are so worth the time. I do wish my Spanish was better, but watching his expressive face underscores how passionate he is about what he does.
Absolutely! I have to go through the vids again and screen capture the different photos they share for my photography inspiration folder 🙂
WOW, this work is stunning! thanks for sharing!!!
Isn’t it Joanna!! Your very welcome!
Brilliant work. Now I’m scouring my surroundings for some appropriate surrealism yet to be revealed.
Same her James haha. Let me know what you come up with! 🙂
Creative …. very creative.
Extremely creative! Thanks Rommel 🙂
So nice! 🙂
Thanks Laura! I love sharing my inspiration 🙂 Keep checking back for more!