Inspiration – Alejandro Chaskielberg
© Alejandro Chaskielberg (A Paraguayan immigrant travels together with an argentinian islander, who is his employer. They are loading 3 tons of Willows, taking them to the principal port of the Delta in order to sell the wood.)
A few weeks ago, Chaskielberg was awarded Burn Magazine’s 2009 Emerging Photographer’s Grant. Rightly so; I have had his images in my head ever since.
Working under a full moon, Chaskielberg has documented workers on the Paraná River Delta, which supplies water for over 100 million people throughout numerous Brazilian cities.
To me, this pushes far beyond standard photojournalism and completely excels. It shows a unique story, a totally original visual approach and an active mind for his craft. He steers clear of the standard photo-j crutches of grainy, black and white images. Rather, he has created beautiful, saturated images which utilize long exposure, artificial light and tilt shift lenses (I could be wrong here, but the DOF looks pretty skewed on many of these) he is able to blend day and night, dream and reality, photo-journalism and illustration.
His work is refreshing to look at and reminds me that outside-the-box thinking is still completely possible in photojournalism, you just need to open your eyes a little more.
View more of his work, here: http://www.chaskielberg.com/