Juan Carlos Hernandez - Life Photographer

Showing posts with label artistic collaboration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label artistic collaboration. Show all posts

9/10/2013

"Still Still Life" #Poem by Christopher Barnett - #Photo by Juan Carlos Hernandez #Photography #Poetry #imperialism #Syria

Dear Citizen,
I met, across a social network, Christopher Barnett - without knowing who he IS exactly. Step by step, I discovered he's really a consecrated poet. Considering our close political and social views we became friends. At last, we have developed, talking about the Syria crisis, an artistic collaboration in fury at what USA is doing once again, so close to the date they destroyed Chile & its song . I hope you will enjoy it.
Juan Carlos



"tumult of cities

turning turning

tumult of cities



tidal wave

time itself turbulent 



horses heaving

as they dance 



in boxes

guardians 



sombre palaces

of water 



cities

without form

must memorize

meandering of rivers 



perambulation

of people 



writing

these words

more painful

than you

imagine 



tremble

as i tremble 



cities

constructed in collapse 



where

ships screamed

out in night



live them still 



so

very still 



cities craters

birds encircle 



banquet

wound

we are 



terror's Memory 



christopher barnett

pour juan août 2013"





7/31/2012

#photo "The Spaces Between" + poem by Diana Matisz + Chris Isaak Song

I'm honoured to collaborate with another US poet, Diana Matisz, who put her mature and sensitive words on one of my photos

I hope you will enjoy this poem named by Diana, "The Spaces Between".

Regards

Juan Carlos







The Spaces Between

we wait for life to find us

for death to take us

we detain joy

and place love in detention

an instance here

an hour there

a foot-drag

a pause

a waiting game

and while we wait

the spaces between 

the waiting

do not hesitate

the spaces between

do not wait

Diana Matisz, 2010





7/21/2012

Video #poema de Mercedes Mayol con mis fotos "Murmullo Gris" #poesia #tango #AstorPiazzola #photo #art

Tengo el immenso placer de haber colaborado con la gran autora argentina Mercedes Mayol.
Mercedes me pidió una serie de fotografías, de las cuales a su vez ella seleccionó una parte. Al verlas desplegadas, la inspiración la llevó a escribir este poema
Les dejo aquí el resultado del cual me siento muy orgulloso.
Ah...un detalle, el poema es narrado por mi.
Espero lo disfruteís.
Juan Carlos
ps : Mercedes Mayol escribio en su muro de Facebook, la historia de nuestra colaboracion, vale la pena publicarlo : "Tengo el enorme placer de presentarles este trabajo en conjunto con el fotógrafo Suizo Juan Carlos Hernández.La idea surgió casi por azar, en esos “¿y por que no?”, que suelen aparecer en la vida. Hablando de los poemas visuales, y en medio de una charla de café virtual, le pregunté si no me permitiría usar sus fotografías para realizar un video, y el con esa generosidad que lo caracteriza me dijo:
- Por que no?
Recibí las fotografías, las cargué al azar en el programa de edición junto a la música de Piazzolla y ellas…me contaron esta historia. Así nació Murmullo gris, de esa mezcla de emociones y sentimientos que pueden expresar las imágenes captadas a través de una lente.
La captura de un instante, de un sentimiento en el tiempo, es algo muy difícil de lograr, ya sea a través de una cámara, una tela o en las letras. Las imágenes captan sentimientos, sensaciones, la brisa, el llanto, la vida. Emociones que normalmente quedan en el recuerdo del que tomo la foto, pero transmitir todo eso...ese es el mayor reto de un artista, que el observador vea, sienta y respire a través de la obra lo que el artista sintió. Juan Carlos tiene eso. Por esta razón es para mi un honor que me haya permitido realizar esta tarea junto a el.
No conforme con esto, decidió recitarlo y a miles de kilómetros de distancia uno del otro, en una madrugada Suizo-Argentina, móvil en mano, grabó esas palabras que hoy escuchan aquí.
Tengo también que agradecer a una persona muy especial para mi, a quien quiero mucho, que realizó la fusión entre voz y música, limpiando los defectos propios de una grabación casera.
Aquí les dejo el video y el poema, espero lo disfruten."


MURMULLO GRIS

Ahogando con mi pena tu reflejo
Atrapado en este espejo de hipócritas vergüenzas...
Recorro con tus ojos el recuerdo
de humedades y pecados que destilan las promesas...
Murmullo gris que acaricia los acordes
de esta ciudad insomne
donde los corazones rotos, laten sin hacer ruido
Otro atardecer de letanías
Esperando esa vejez que nunca llega
Y esa tácita pregunta del por que aún me encuentro vivo
hace eco en las paredes hoy vacías...
Y tu te alejas...
tu rostro es devorado por el temblor inerte de un vientre ya dormido
Y yo te espero...
en medio de una calle de esperanzas extraviadas...
Mirando el horizonte...buscando algún destello
de esa luz que habita en la prisión de la deshonra
Un accidente crucificado en una esquina...
Una aventura que se pierde en la nostalgia
Tu y yo..
Mendigos de amores, de caricias oxidadas...
Compañeros de vida o de una muerte agazapada..
El humo de un cigarro te dibuja...
Como un espectro que se pierde allí en el alba...
Un pudo ser abandonado en un espejo...
Ese pensarte que me obliga a decir nada...
Y yo aun te espero...
En esta soledad absurda
Que hoy empaña con su aliento mi ventana

©Mercedes Mayol
Copyright 15-07-2012


6/02/2012

"Shadows" + song inspired by my #photo by Liz Gilbert



Do you know Liz Gilbert ? I know her thanks to twitter, her nickname is @anodyne2art. A wonderful human being. Her heart doesn't know limits.

She wrote a song "Shadows" inspired by this photograph. Life is full of special gifts and someone feels sometime blessed with this one.

Liz Gilbert : "Shadows was recorded live, just me as is my wont, in a freezing cold studio after coming back from seeing a kid in a coma (after bad car accident he was in....I have been involved with a lot of kids here for over 20 years...the budding artist ones)...an intense time to say the least."

04 Shadows by Liz Gilbert

11/11/2011

I collaborated with "Nihon Rising" a Collaborative Art Project for Japan

Hi,

I'm pleased to share with you this video containing a splendid poem and 50 splendid artworks including mine for a collaborative art project named "Nihon Rising" concerning the Tsunami which devastated Japan this year.
The project has been initiated by the UK poet Gwylym Owen and the Japanese artist Kaoru Fukushima of Ihono Arts Group Gwylym Owen has very well explained his project on his blog .. just check and read please, here : http://plcolabs.blogspot.com/2011/11/nihon-rising_07.html
Gwylym is a wonderful poet with who I have collaborated offering him my photographs who inspired him wonderful poems. You can check them here : http://juancarloshernandezphotographe.blogspot.com/search/label/-OWEN%20Gwylym
Thanks for watching the video directly on YouTube and to share it with your friends on your social networks
Peace

Juan Carlos





8/25/2011

Photopoem with Sophia Fine : "REVEALING THE VIRILITY OF THINGS" + jazz music of Paolo Fresu


Hello,
I'm happy and proud to collaborate again with Sophia Fine, a fantastic painter, very talented writer, and special friend.
Once more, she was inspired by one of my photographs to write a beautiful poem. Her style, as always, is modern poetry at it's best!
Take a look to our other collaborations Don't forget please to play the wonderful music of Paolo Fresu reading the poem. The player is located below at the end. 
I’m always looking forward to collaborations with Sophia, and I hope the feeling is mutual!
Juan Carlos 

REVEALING THE VIRILITY OF THINGS
How to begin at the beginning:
"When are you going to stop asking too much from life."
His words fall in to broken pieces on the cold ground.
Their echo reaches her tired dimming soul.
Feline’s patience will force a smile.
Tensing for a glimpse of his swaying mood.
Between her face and his, the softness of a child is taking form and vanishes.
No way to bring back lost love.
Thirst for love, thirst for ecstasy,
rare pearls in the palm of her hand,
transformed to cicadas with their
long monotonous song.
Music score for Doom.
Like a Horn of Plenty, the Messenger's Bag spills out a haze of Joy and Sad.
Memories found and lost.
The blue sea flickers like a zoetrope, and the simmering light alternates in quick succession. Suddenly the brilliant Sun leeches the landscape of all Colors.
The desire, passion... close, so close.
Only sea and sky the limits between them.
Hollow whispers that none of them can hear.
In the shadow a man, a young man,
caresses a woman. The stroke of his hand
erases the wrinkles around her eyes,
and returns some of the youthful 
Luster on her graying hair.
Her voice murmurs hauntingly without
Vocabilaire, paling every word, speaking 
In sentences..
Mind runs dry.
The yearning, the need, the “Never More” choking every heart beat.
“Remember for hours I was gazing
Into your eyes... still didn't know us.”
Swimming in a murky river, the bodies
Try to reach the familiar banks.
Trembling, trembling so...
With eyes closed to see. 
The island is lost and the wind vanishes resistance.
Time brings happiness.
Time kills time.
Welcome friend, or enemy.
Mine, First Love, began with a caress.
Muzzle, neck, legs, my hands run over my Horse's Splendid body.
Then a word carefully chosen, or Silence. 
That was a pure Love's Joy!
Eternal to Be.
Ah Love, you only stay with Love,
To make Happy.
Stay young, he once said, tossing her
slender body up in the air.
There were kisses, summer rhymes, caresses.
Descending in his young arms, on a sea of anemones,
felt his Kiss, his lips ... and Love.
Exuberance full strength.
Rapido Con Brio.
Ah Love, you only stay with Love,
To make Happiness.
Like a Horn of Plenty, the Messenger's Bag spills out a haze of Joy and Sad.
Memories lost and found.
The invisible wounds within,
suspended passions, simple desires
waiting to be revived, to be felt again,
to have a second chance, bending on hard cold ground never to return.
Souls are cleaving to reach...without hope.
A knife suspends from the sky never known where-when will drop to cut.
This sky soon will be starry but the stars don't care, they have their own life.
Angels are not real.. Make their own life.. Who will care.
The night shrinks to nothing.
Stillness.
The Rhythmical clock sounds out of breath.
His distant gaze reflects a Forest Burning..
Flames dancing in a young woman's form,
calling erotic verses echoing his lust desire.
Faces light up for a moment of flash
to disappear In an ebony darkness.
His desire will fall on a cold marble bed on Time's Call.
Doesn't take much time for evil to stage.
The soul wants to Be, to feel the touch in the young woman's arms,
Deep in her arms, on her inviting softness..
breathing her Love, Quiver that take his breath away.
But Everything still, only the sound of the rattling time.
Stillness is an invitation to death inside, nothing will be revived.
Is softness in silence.. Hurting Stills.
This Life will be viewed behind a misty glass.. creating healing illusions.
Their footsteps will echo through empty corridors of time...
Perhaps a little night's music will bring a sliver of reality past..
sans prelude of herald melodies.
Time steals love... No ransom.
No living back the taken.
Time steals time.
"Don't let the children go through the smoldering gaverous fields..
their innocence will make deep holes in their souls."
In a spike of light she will see the first
wrinkles on his forehead..the lost desire
in empty eyes.
Tonight let's put away the Real!
Compassion in C minor will do in the new settings!
Time kills in time.
Life Heals in Time.
"I saw a shooting star! Good luck!"
BIZZZ!!! ........ LIFE IS ON!!!
Sophia Fine JUNE 2011
Inspired by a photo... Inspiration applied on other, than the obvious.

7/05/2011

"Night Stalking",collaboration with the poet Maureen E. Doallas + piece of Debussy "Nuages"

I'm pleased and sincerely honoured to introduce you the poet Maureen O. Doallas who has been inspired by one of my atmospheric photographs I've taken in 2009


Maureen E. Doallas is a features writer and editor who recently published with T.S. Poetry Press her debut collection of poetry, Neruda's Memoirs: Poems. Maureen's poems also have appeared in the anthology Oil and Water... and Other Things That Don't Mix and at Poets for Living Waters, the sad red earth, and Red Lion Square. Her interviews have been published at The High Calling. Maureen posts daily at Writing Without Paper, primarily about poetry and other literary, visual, and performing arts. She owns a small art-licensing business Transformational Threads.


Please check other artistic collaborations I had clicking here 









Night Stalking

Red-winged blackbirds
unperched from cattail


stalks bleed silhouettes
into the nimbus, the sky

parched into night
threaded into dream's
space, emptying
and filling.

© 2011 Maureen E. Doallas






4/25/2011

Traverses / Regards croisés avec Stéphane Bataillon (photographie et poésie)

Voici une collaboration artistique avec le poète français Stéphane Bataillon, auteur du recueil de poésies "Où Nos Ombres S'Epousent". Si vous désirez connaître ses confidences et secrets d'auteur, je vous invite à écouter son interview du 19 février 2011 sur France Culture lors de l'émission "Ca Rime à Quoi"

J'ai laissé le libre choix des photographies à Stéphane et il a choisi 4 images présentes dans mon calendrier 2011.

J'espère que vous aurez du plaisir à découvrir et lire notre collaboration qui je l'espère en amènera d'autres.

Au plaisir et douce journée

1. Fatale


Tournoyer jusqu’à fondre
Jusqu’à quand
rester proie.

 --
2. L’oubli

 
 Non
pas se perdre Encore un petit peu.

--
3. Alma


La force ramassée
d’un épuisé de monde
Et le chant qui s’entonne.


--
4. Réticence 


Des racines crachées
seule la pierre devine
ce que masque ton parfum.

Textes © : Stéphane Bataillon / Photographies : © Juan-Carlos Hernandez.

3/25/2011

"Into The Mystic", collaboration with poet Gwylym Owen ( & music of Van Morrison)

Hi there,

I'm glad to collaborate for a second time with the english poet Gwylym Owen.

I proposed him to wrote a poem inspired on this photograph I took in Barcelona (August 2010) and in a splendid song composed by Van Morrison "Into the Mystic". You will be able to listen this song activating the player below the Gwylym's prose.

I hope you will enjoy this new collaboration and I invite you to click here in order to see our other artistic collaboration.

Peace




INTO THE MYSTIC 

For the mystical mind fly's, into the oblivion of a souls eye
Trusting an unseen plan, being guided by the unknown
And now we fly, we fly on to, our grand destined land
Blinded by the light and obscured views, of constant truths
Showered rays in musical arrays and light waves
Lantern high and in the eye, of narrowed, certain pathways.
Heading toward the higher frequencies, resonates being
Now start seeing, looking out a window: No! It does not glow.
Now listen and look within your heart, be smart from the start.
Tuning, playing, tuning, playing, tuning bestowing.
Always walking toward the light, always mysterious in the plight.
Listen to thee, now let your mind see and let the glee run free
The mystery of mysteries, the souls key, the you and me.

by Gwylym Owen, February 2011

2/25/2011

"Manic Depression",collaboration with poet Diana Matisz (+ Jimi Hendrix song) )

Hello,

Today, I'm so pleased to present you my third collaboration with the US poet Diana Matisz. If you mind, you can read and watch clicking here our 2 other collaborations.

And don't forget please to activate the player below the poem and listen the song of Jimi Hendrix reading the poem.

Bye for now

Juan Carlos


MANIC DEPRESSION 


You know the feeling
I know you do
it begins deep in the belly
a stirring of the entrails
an igneous eruption of emotion
firing torrid blood to every extremity

You know how it feels
I know you do
that edginess of lacerated nerves
riding the chafed surfaces
of skin and bones
the itch of containment

Admit it, you know the feeling
I know you do
the snap of synapses on overload
a drumbeat of tension
pinpricks tattooing their path
from toe to head

Yes, you know how it feels
I know you do
but is it joy or is it pain?
it makes no difference
because all you need
all you know or want to know
is release

by Diana Matisz, February 2011

                            

2/10/2011

"Lost Moments", collaboration with poet Gwylym Owen (+ jazz music by Oliver Nelson)

Hi,

I contacted recently a poet from United Kingdom I appreciate a lot for a collaboration. I asked him to choose one of my photos and he has been inspired by the photograph below. Gwylym Owen offered me a splendid poem. Please visit his site in order to read other of his writings http://illiteratepoetry.blogspot.com/

And don't forget, to activate the youtube player (below the photo) reading the poem. I choosed a jazz tune called Stolen Moments by Oliver Nelson, a pure classic of jazz music.

Bye for now

Juan Carlos


Lost Moments 

Encased, within enveloping Time-Spatial Curves
Cosmic ray showers, fade as Muons decay
Swallowed whole, in that great ocean of sands
Likened to the silence, in-between Musical notes
Memory evokes such, wonderfully fond tales;
Cheap impersonations, that hardly fill the void;
Of stolen moments in, transitory Manifestation.
Hustle and bustle, tempered by the mild gentle wind.
Ebbing and flowing, toing and froing.
Untouched by even, the most severest, of frost.
A young boy never standing still, a childhood lost.
A moppet's memory, of scented meadows, freshly cut.
The way the scent fades, as the years pass.
Those treasured moments never seem to last.
Chasing them is a pointless and thankless task;
And as the Grand 'Ammon's horn', starts to stir and trip
On Neptune's vehicle in the high seas of the Hippocampus
Click, click, Clack, there's only one logical fact.
Steal your future back, Conjure up: 'Omnipresent Style',
Live, every waking instant, as if it were your last.
Fill all of those, pilfered Flashes, with moments; worth stealing.
Too busy fashioning, to look back, creating stolen moments;
That's the task, that will always last, this kind of trice is always nice.
So the choice is yours: Celebrate or Regret: "Stolen Moments."
Though - as you swoosh through; Fleeting, flashes;
Cherish and adore, as they do unfold,
For, surely this is the definition, of purest Gold.



copyright Gwylym Owen, 2011




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