At a samba-performance August 4. 2006 in Gothenburg
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Puerto Esperanza
Me I am always searching for faces when I have the camera. This was in Puerto Esperanza, a small town in the northern coast of Cuba. January 19. 2008
Under the bridge 2
It was actually 5 degrees below cero that day. The wedding couple where struggling to appear warm. The photographer !!! had to keep up the spirits and deliver.
February 2. 2013
Familia de Huandoval
He approached me on the street and asked “señor.. usted puede hacerme el favor de tomar una foto de mi familia?” Mister.. can you do me the favor of taking a photo of my family?
This was in Huandoval in 1979, a small isolated village in the Peruvian Andes.
I went with him in to his house and suggested them to sit down in the doorway.
When finished the man in the house thanked me in a sincere way and invited me for a
drink. There was never any desire expressed for a copy of the picture, they just seemed happy enough for having their portrait taken.
Hope they are connected to the web today and google on “Huandoval”. If someone recognize this family I would be grateful for some information.
The noble art…
.. of setting up the volleyball net. What a day, what a game! Anse Major, Mahé. The Seychelles. February 5. 2012
Seychellois woman
Sunday dinner with the family at the restaurant. Praslin island. Seychelles. February 12. 2012
(photo slightly blurred. I have also cloned away an irritating white tube)
A fish with an attitude
A number of paradise-like islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean… The Seychelles.
One of the highlights for me was the diving.
It might look like an easy motive but it´s not, I promise. It´s a different ballgame to take pictures under water. The creatures you meet accept your presence up to a certain point. If you get to close they are off in a hurry. No posing from this guy.
Want to see more from this place? click on category Seychelles The above photo was taken February 9. 2012.
Hey mister..
“don´t swim to far out.. there are big sharks out there” the twins told me and smiled between them.
It was mostly a friendly joke. But I knew that six months earlier sharks had killed one french man and two weeks later an english tourist not very far from this beach.
Praslin island, The Seychelles. February 2012.
Smell of victory..
and blood! When these gentlemen understood that I was pointing the camera mostly towards them rather than focusing the fighting-cocks the mood changed and became quite aggressive.
I left without arguing. These games are illegal and I had been told that two policemen had been beaten to death a couple of months earlier at another cock-fight!
The bookmaker
At the local sunday cock-fight somewhere in the western part of Cuba. January. 2005
Håkan Rönnblad 