Honorable Mention
La Llorona
DESCRIPTION
A personal visual interpretation of central Mexico’s folk mythical figure of la Llorona, using light-painting to enhance the eerie feeling of her legend.La Llorona is supposed to be a weeping, vengeful ghost roaming around the river banks, regretfully mourning her children whom she drowned as a revenge for her husband’s adultery. During the Day of the Dead celebrations, she relevantly disguises as Catrina, the skeleton woman.
“…I don’t know what the flowers are, Llorona, the flowers of the Holy field.
When the wind moves them, Llorona, it seems they are crying…”
AUTHOR
Although a Civil Engineer in profession, I turned out as an amateur travel photographer having traveled to numerous countries around the world such as Ethiopia, India, Burkina Faso, Indonesia, Cote d'Ivoire, China, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Papua New Guinea, Mali, Benin, Haiti, Cuba etc. My main goal is to capture the uniqueness of the local cultures and the life of the people in the most remote places of our world, emphasizing on syncretism between rare religions and rituals. My pictures have been awarded multiple awards in many prestigious photo competitions and have been published in many books and magazines. 