Manuella Lorenti was born and raised in Madrid and is fascinated by the lives of her city. He loves “streets, bars, stores, workers, crafts, most historical characters,” he told P3 in an interview. This is the love for the Spanish capital, and their “their characters”, which are in extinction, which leads it to photography.
Project He puts music, we dance (“He puts music, and we dance”, in a free translation), which was fully photographed in Madrid, and combines imagination and documentary with the same purpose: depicting what is still in the great city “Boeplo”, his designated characters, horny places and something dated. Lorenty does not photograph real stories, but Real Madrid. Explain. “The stories that the photographer swings between reality and imagination. Reality is formed in the images that I make when I go out to the street and the imagination comes to Proegheri, when the stories are from the pictures I took.”
He puts music, we danceWhich is shown in the festival refuge for emerging European talent Bloody circulation (s)In Paris, she tells the story of “a group of criminals who devote life to a small clouds in its neighborhood”, an account Lorent. They try to imitate the characters from GangWearing the principle, and “try to intimidate their neighborhood, with a little success.” “The brothers are about to receive the information that will lead them to Galicia in search of their most juicy withdrawal so far: a large load of luxurious French antiquities. What they do not expect is that it ends with a cylinder by mistake – with everything it means.”
This story, which has the shape of a photonophila or a WorkboardWith the texts written by Pedo Colao, it is part of a project with six “chapters”, entitled “entitled” Are you who think?. The six stories are not associated with each other, but they share a sharp humor and “a mixture of DedicatedTradition, popular culture and identity “Madrid. “Niti is making a social, social, cultural image of Madrid,” notes. “The stories are countless, but they have the same tone.”
And the same aesthetic. Maria Lorenti is a fan of use flash. “I love working with flashIt is like a particle accelerator. It gives a touch of surreal to all pictures, because this is not how we see reality through our eyes. “He loves saturated colors, narrow plans, and the closed and detailed approach, and their effect, in photography, works Christina Garcia Rudueroand Martin BarrCrystobal Hara, Cases, Edth of the Elskeen, among others.
“I always devoted myself to documentary photography, I would like to see myself a kind of vehicleFrom the room on hand to wandering all over the city, “the photographer describes 34 years of Madrid.” I can’t avoid being a little Voyeur Once I cross with one of these characters, I cannot stop imagining what they are already, which kind of life they lead. “
Manuella Lorenti He also finds inspiration in cinema and literature to clarify stories. In the cinema, “Woody Allen or Robert Al -Tamman admires the depth of his characters and the relationships they form with each other.” Louis Garcia Berlanja’s films loves “Crazy Stances and Dialogue”, and screw American.
In literature, Raymond Carver or Richard Ford’s passion nourishes. He said, “I inspired them to everyone.” “I love the way they explore daily, worldly topics, how to tell stories nothing and everything happens.”
In your stories, there is a little of everything. “Architecture is a personality in some of them,” he explains. in And to this mouse that kills it? , Lorent tells the history of two construction workers, fanatics in Atletico Madrid, responsible for demolishing the club’s stadium, El Calderon. In another chapter, Crimenes of Torres Blancas“Two friendly women and neighbors are planning to get rid of their useless husbands.”
Humilevskyi Artem Project displayed at the festival Trading (s) – European Youth Photography FestivalIn Paris. P3, during the festival period, between April 5 and June 1, displays some of the projects that make up part of it Fifteen edition.
