Showing posts with label Photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Photography. Show all posts

Thursday, 21 June 2012

Like bull fighting?

Even with all the controversy that Bullfighting creates nowadays, you have to admit it´s something deeply associated to Spain.

This month you can see a photograph exhibition about the history of bullfighting in Madrid Underground, in Retiro Station, though 150 advertising spaces throughout the underground also show pictures to the daily "Metro" passengers.
This enterprise is called "Vía Torográfica" and it´s formed by 12 photographers (8 Spanish and 4 French) that selected pictures about bullfighting from the beggining of XIX century to the mid 70s, and also took photographs about this world.
I recommend the old pictures, full of interesting people and vintage clothing. I could stare for hours at the little details!




Sunday, 22 April 2012

Harinezumi Geneva Experience











Geneva

A very posh city. Everything´s tidy and clean. Everything´s expensive.
But, despite all that, it´s a very nice city!
It´s curious how I always pictured Europe like this cities, like Geneva for example. Old, different, elegant..., I don´t know.

Everybody told me the only thing to see in Geneva was the jet d´eau and the lake. But I found some great surprises like the museum of contemporary Art (MAMCO) or the old part of the city.

The 3º day, I left the EBMT for a while and did some touristic stuff. My favorites: the broken chair sculpture infront of the United Nations building, the old city, the City hall, the Cathedral, the lake, and of course, the Jet d´eau. 

The last morning, it rained, so I only got frozen and wet. I visited the lake on the other side. And then, I went to MAMCO.

I also bought the best souvenir ever!: the Kodak brownie starmite in an antique store. 

I came back almost running to the hotel to get the transfer to the airport.

Infront of the United Nations

The broken chair


Maple and walnut icecream










Climbing the Cathedral towers



From the Cathedral



City Hall






Sissi monument