Nacho
Cabana - Profile
After
visiting Djenne in Mali, Nacho wrote in his travel diary "In the west we
have restricted life by through motorways, electric light, police, interdictions,
public powers, transportation, medicine, steel doors. In Africa life explodes
anywhere, there is no difference between public and private. The houses
are always open; people satisfy their physiological needs on a square near
a woman selling peanuts while breast feeding her baby, a group of men prays
towards Mecca and a truck drives makes an effort to remove from the mud
a vehicle that should never entered the market area".
His
work reflects a beauty not found in cathedrals or museums but in apparently
insignificant and ephemeral day to day actions.
This
perspective well exemplified by the plastic bag floating randomly in the
air in the film "American Beauty" inspired the title of his latest exhibition
"African Beauty", which took place in Madrid, where Nacho was born and
is based.
In
addition to photography Nacho is a TV and cinema script writer with a vast
work in Spain, among others: the serials "Médico de familia",
"Compañeros" and "Policías" as well as the film "No debes
estar aquí".
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Images by Nacho Cabana
at Travel-Images.com:
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