Yudel Linares
b. Havana, 1979
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What makes you press the shutter?
I try to capture and perpetuate, when I close my camera, the essence of that moment in life, however ephemeral it may be, since most of the time these moments vanish in just seconds, but when you manage to capture them, you know that they will now exist that way for ever ...
Why black and white?
Sometimes since you are taking a picture you already know that it will work only in that way, and this is because of the psychological force and mysticism that is enclosed in the bi-color effect of black and white even when our reality is infinitely an explosion of colors. But there are images that accelerate or tear your heart when you look at them through this filter and I cannot imagine them in any other way...
What impact would you like your photos to have?
The greatest impact that I would like my photos to have on my audience or on those who appreciate my images, is that they learn to stop and look at what their eyes did not allow them to see before. In their daily avatars of stormy or glamorous existence ...
Do you consider your work to have a transforming effect in your audience?
Perhaps expecting my work to change my audience in a specific way is a bit Utopian, however I know that many souls will feel identified with them. There will always be someone who becomes deeply sensitive to your photos, no matter how hard or beautiful, whatever the moment you managed to capture, and they end up taking home, together with his family or his loneliness, that moment that deeply stirred his existence or the one that changed his way in that moment of seeing a certain reality. Although I confess that it makes me very happy spiritually, every time I see that someone takes a part of me, so that it becomes part of their world.