Marcin Retecki FineArt Photography

A short interview with Juan-Carlos Hernandez

Please introduce yourself.
My name is Juan-Carlos Hernandez. I was born in 1971 and took my first steps in photography in the 1980’s. Passionate about jazz, I started working as an amateur photographer on American and European stages as of 2004. Three years later, I decided to dedicate myself fully to my passion …

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A bit of history

The end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century are incredibly dynamic times. The changes in artistic expression were faster than ever before. Basically, each new artistic era became shorter and shorter. Just look how long the Middle Ages were – roughly 10 centuries! There were different streams and distinctions, with two main “blocks” called Roman style and Gothic style. Each of them lasted hundreds of years.

Then the Renaissance, depending on the area, lasted roughly 300 years. Afterwards, each epoch got shorter and more diversified. Actually different movements overlapped each other, especially in different art areas. For example architectural Baroque lasted in Span till 18th century, when most of the Europe was already deeply in neoclassicism. In addition, Baroque in architecture didn’t mean that painters or writers were under the same influence, they often weren’t.

The 19th century was already a huge rush. It’s the era of romantics, realists, impressionists, symbolists. …

Before my recent discoveries, I would like to take a moment and show you two fill-up photos from my last week’s self-portrait session. The above one was a spoof on one of Jackie Chan’s movie covers, I can’t recall which one exactly. However, I added the mask for additional fun.

The set-up was exactly the same as in this one. The only difference is a slight yellow-green cast I added in post for the ninja pic. I still encourage you to express your opinion about the Week 9 – Are we really influenced by literally everything around us? I think the topic is interesting, although probably hard to express something new, give it a moment.

Influences are actually one of the most important factors which lead to developing our own style. …

Today I would like to present you a bit different point of view – women’s point of view. I have waited with this article a bit longer because I decided that Women’s Day is a great opportunity to showcase some artistic and social insight. I’m not going to write too much so you can just watch, think and make your own opinions.

Let’s begin with a video that my friend Natalia has showed me today:

This short clip is women’s answer to the viral Dodge Campaign shown below. Do you find it funny? …

When we take photos of a certain subject we can easily get used it. We begin to feel more comfortable and confident. Then, we as easily forget the whole process and stay in this comfort zone.

I have prepared a short video with my story about street photography. I hope it will encourage you to try it out yourself:

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