Sant Joan Tower

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The Sant Joan tower is placed in an small island located inside the “port dels Alfacs”, 50 meters away from the Ebre river delta shore. It was build by king Felip II in 1576 an was the first of four towers targeted to defend the Delta from pirate ships. Finally only two of they were finished.

The path to reach the shore surrounding the tower is a little hard so the spot is normally deserted. When I arrived, before the sunrise, there was no one. To access the island from the shore there is a loose stones path that at that moment was submerged. Luckily my idea was to shoot from the shore so I started to work.

Then it happened a phenomenon that still today astonishes me: the stone path to the tower started to be visible. “The tide is fast”, I thought. But just a few minutes after, the path disappeared again under the water as fast as it had appeared. It was like to be inside a fantasy novel: the tower invited me to get in by showing me the path to the island!

I don’t know the explanation to this sudden change of the bay water level, but I’m sure that it is completely rational. But meanwhile I don’t find why, I happy to think that the tower invited me to get in that day ….

Sant Joan Tower.

Port dels Alfacs. Ebre delta.

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Gull over the mirror

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The delta of the Ebre river is a place that landscape photographers should never miss. A place where sea shores are infinite and deserted, where the sea is smooth like a prefect mirror and the land is always flat and looks completely different every season.

The last time I visited the Delta was 15 years ago. This summer I had the opportunity to come back for a few days, just enough to realise that I have to return more often, that I have the need to explore this landscape in depth through the viewfinder of my Nikon.

The next weeks I will post the pictures I shot at the Delta. They are only a small introduction to this land.

Gull in front the mirror

Illa de Mar harbour. Ebre delta.

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Photographic exhibition “+Retrats Viscuts”

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It is a great pleasure to invite you to attend to the opening of the photographic exhibition:

“+Retrats Viscuts”
organized by the Agrupació Fotogràfica d’Arenys de Mar and the Arenys de Mar city council

+Retrats Viscuts

Just like the first exhibition, “+Retrats Viscuts” are portraits of people that had become popular in the village due their profession or activism.

This year I have had the opportunity to photograph the poet Teresa d’Arenys  and the theatre director Jordi Pons. The resulting portraits has been published recently in this blog under the tag “Lived portraits“.

One more year working with the subjects has been a great experience.

I wish you enjoy “Retrats Viscuts”!

Teresa d’Arenys

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Teresa d'Arenys

Poet and cultural activist.

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Maria Teresa Bertran gently offered the following unpublished poem to accompany her portrait (in catalan):

NEIGE D’ANTAN (divagació en un cementiri marí)
A Montserrat Gras Riera, que ha partit en ser besàvia

Una naixença?
Vida que empeny la vida,
vida que arriba
i amb brisa imperceptible
mena la nostra barca

devers el trànsit.
En un tombant de lluna
coincidències
entre la llum i l’ombra
semblen resoldre opòsits…

Una pregària?
Provar de retrobar-te
per les segures,
intemporals cruïlles
on la vida és impresa.

I de cop sobte
la mar, tardors i pluges
que enamoraven
et rescaten del somni
del buit, et recuperen.

Però, les maneres!
Com trobem a faltar les
d’aquelles dames
que Villon evocava…
I n’eres una, d’elles!

maig 2015