Ibán Ramón, 40
1. Your skills range from having a strong centralized subject to having a complex photograph with scenes within the scene. Where does this fluctuation between two polarized styles come from?
Acostumbro a colocar los motivos que fotografío sobre el fondo como si fuese un escenario, trato de controlar al máximo los pesos visuales y la composición, esta manera de trabajar tal vez tiene que ver con mi profesión de diseñador gráfico.
I like to placing the things that I photograph on the bottom as if it was a theatre scene, i try to control the visual weights to the maximum and the composition, this way to work perhaps has to do with my profession of graphical designer.
2. What do you and the subjects of your portraits talk about before you photograph them? Do you direct them for a specific look you want or do you just let them relax?
Les explico cuales son las intenciones, lo que que yo veo en las escenas que fotografío, y la expresión que busco en ellos. Habitualmente les hablo hasta encontrar lo que busco.
I explain to them which are my intentions, which that I see in the scenes that I photograph, and the expression that I look for in them. Habitually I speak to them until finding what I look for.
3. What is the ideal photograph? Is there such a thing?
Cada día sería diferente. Creo que puede haberla en un instante preciso y en un lugar concreto, pero sólo por un instante.
Every day would be different. I believe that it can be it at a precise moment and a concrete place, but only for a moment.
4. When did photography find it’s way into your life? How have you grown/changed as a photographer since that moment?
Hago fotos desde muy joven, para mí es un modo de expresión más que alterno con la pintura, la ilustración y el grafismo en general.
I make photos from very young, for me is a way of expression more that i alternate with the painting, the illustration and the graphism in general.
5. How often are you inspired? What inspires you?
Uno se siente inspirado a la vez que necesitado de hacer cosas. La vida es una fuente de inspiración inagotable, a mí me inspiran mis propias obsesiones.
I’m feel inspired at the same time as needed to make things. The life is a source of inexhaustible inspiration, I’m inspired by my own obsessions.
Ibán’s flickr.
