http://www.theportfolioproject.org/guests/faustogiaccone/portraitsfromtheshadows I met Gabriel Garcia Marquez for the first time forty years ago in the pages of "One Hundred Years of Solitude." The universal language of the book touched me deeply. The book enchanted me, but then I was not able to translate emotions into images in my mind, nor to put, in time and space, places, characters and events the author was telling about.<br/>Twenty years ago my job as a photojournalist took me to Colombia for the first time. To find a way for an access route to this country, I returned to Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and I chose "The General in His Labyrinth" as a virtual guide. In that book, I found everything. Not only the best contemporary Colombian literature, but also its topography, its history, its traditions and its pain, its light and its shadows. The novel talks about the last journey of Simon Bolivar, El Libertador, coming down from the mists of the capital Santa Fé de Bogotá until the heat of the valley of the Rio Magdalena and further to the ocean. But in Santa Marta, the harbour from where he was about to be sent to exile in England, he finally died. Since then, several photographic assignments for various magazines gave me the opportunity to investigate the close relationship between the Country itself and the literary world of the Colombian Nobel winner. I t has been only after 2002, after reading “To Live To Tell It”, the first (and last..) volume of the author's memoirs, that I started to think seriously about the project which led to the book "Portraits from the shadows." The reading of the autobiography confirmed my hypothesis that in fact every page of the writer, even the most seemingly imaginative, originated from a concrete reference to a fact, to a person, to a place. So I decided to try to travel through the places of his novels and his life. Though I did not not even have a specific project in mind, I knew from the beginning that I did not want to produce images of mere illustration, nor did I want to be the illustrator of his novels, instead I wished to let my eyes interpret freely what appeared before me in spaces and places that the work of GGM had made accessible to me. And above all I wanted to be open to any surprise, even those seemingly "off topic". I also wanted to be able to forget the look of the "professional photojournalist", if possible. Giving up the tools I was used to for many years, the color and 35mm, either slide or digital, I went back to a medium format camera with black and white film. I went back to '60s gear, but to work without nostalgia in today's world. I worked with that concept in my mind during three trips between 2006 and 2010, finding a great help from reading the brilliant and monumental biography "GGM, A Life," by Gerald Martin.<br/><br/>website | <a href="http://www.faustogiaccone.com/" target="_blank">www.faustogiaccone.com</a> en-us (C) THE PORTFOLIO PROJECT | thinking photography differently info@theportfolioproject.org (THE PORTFOLIO PROJECT | thinking photography differently) Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.theportfolioproject.org/img/s1/v21/p820066992-10.jpg http://www.theportfolioproject.org/guests/faustogiaccone/portraitsfromtheshadows 120 120 http://www.theportfolioproject.org/guests/faustogiaccone/portraitsfromtheshadows/e30E13AB0

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]]> info@theportfolioproject.org (THE PORTFOLIO PROJECT | thinking photography differently) Aracataca. A woman sitting in her house with the portrait of her mother. http://www.theportfolioproject.org/guests/faustogiaccone/portraitsfromtheshadows/e30E13AB0 Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.theportfolioproject.org/guests/faustogiaccone/portraitsfromtheshadows/e23C3B6ED

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]]> info@theportfolioproject.org (THE PORTFOLIO PROJECT | thinking photography differently) Riohacha. A man from native Wayú tribe. http://www.theportfolioproject.org/guests/faustogiaccone/portraitsfromtheshadows/e23C3B6ED Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.theportfolioproject.org/guests/faustogiaccone/portraitsfromtheshadows/e2F69E207

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]]> info@theportfolioproject.org (THE PORTFOLIO PROJECT | thinking photography differently) Aracataca. "La casa del telegrafista". A small museum displaying old instruments from the old telegraph service, where Eligio Garcia, GG Marquez's father, had been working. http://www.theportfolioproject.org/guests/faustogiaccone/portraitsfromtheshadows/e2F69E207 Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.theportfolioproject.org/guests/faustogiaccone/portraitsfromtheshadows/e303238DD

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]]> info@theportfolioproject.org (THE PORTFOLIO PROJECT | thinking photography differently) Manaure. A man from native Wayú tribe working in a saline. http://www.theportfolioproject.org/guests/faustogiaccone/portraitsfromtheshadows/e303238DD Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.theportfolioproject.org/guests/faustogiaccone/portraitsfromtheshadows/e22E62750

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]]> info@theportfolioproject.org (THE PORTFOLIO PROJECT | thinking photography differently) Orihueca, zona bananera. Holy Friday Procession. http://www.theportfolioproject.org/guests/faustogiaccone/portraitsfromtheshadows/e22E62750 Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.theportfolioproject.org/guests/faustogiaccone/portraitsfromtheshadows/e21964F62

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]]> info@theportfolioproject.org (THE PORTFOLIO PROJECT | thinking photography differently) Riohacha. The house where GG Marquez's parents went to live after their wedding. http://www.theportfolioproject.org/guests/faustogiaccone/portraitsfromtheshadows/e21964F62 Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.theportfolioproject.org/guests/faustogiaccone/portraitsfromtheshadows/e30426C7A

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]]> info@theportfolioproject.org (THE PORTFOLIO PROJECT | thinking photography differently) Aracataca. A woman with her baby. http://www.theportfolioproject.org/guests/faustogiaccone/portraitsfromtheshadows/e30426C7A Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.theportfolioproject.org/guests/faustogiaccone/portraitsfromtheshadows/e25E812E0

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]]> info@theportfolioproject.org (THE PORTFOLIO PROJECT | thinking photography differently) Barrancas. A man with his cock. http://www.theportfolioproject.org/guests/faustogiaccone/portraitsfromtheshadows/e25E812E0 Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.theportfolioproject.org/guests/faustogiaccone/portraitsfromtheshadows/e3DEEBA32

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]]> info@theportfolioproject.org (THE PORTFOLIO PROJECT | thinking photography differently) Sucre. A boy taking a shower during a rain. http://www.theportfolioproject.org/guests/faustogiaccone/portraitsfromtheshadows/e3DEEBA32 Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.theportfolioproject.org/guests/faustogiaccone/portraitsfromtheshadows/e3B95BE7F

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]]> info@theportfolioproject.org (THE PORTFOLIO PROJECT | thinking photography differently) Zona bananera. A dog in Macondo bananas factory. http://www.theportfolioproject.org/guests/faustogiaccone/portraitsfromtheshadows/e3B95BE7F Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.theportfolioproject.org/guests/faustogiaccone/portraitsfromtheshadows/e33624357

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]]> info@theportfolioproject.org (THE PORTFOLIO PROJECT | thinking photography differently) Cartagena de Indias. An heron waiting for the fishermen coming back. http://www.theportfolioproject.org/guests/faustogiaccone/portraitsfromtheshadows/e33624357 Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.theportfolioproject.org/guests/faustogiaccone/portraitsfromtheshadows/e3A5D35E4

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]]> info@theportfolioproject.org (THE PORTFOLIO PROJECT | thinking photography differently) Orihueca, zona bananera. A woman with her daughter. http://www.theportfolioproject.org/guests/faustogiaccone/portraitsfromtheshadows/e3A5D35E4 Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.theportfolioproject.org/guests/faustogiaccone/portraitsfromtheshadows/e36A63B8B

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]]> info@theportfolioproject.org (THE PORTFOLIO PROJECT | thinking photography differently) Santa Cruz de Mompox. A room of the oldest house in town (1734). In these interiors were filmed dance sequences of the film by Francesco Rosi "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" from a novel by G. Gar http://www.theportfolioproject.org/guests/faustogiaccone/portraitsfromtheshadows/e36A63B8B Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.theportfolioproject.org/guests/faustogiaccone/portraitsfromtheshadows/e39E19E39

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]]> info@theportfolioproject.org (THE PORTFOLIO PROJECT | thinking photography differently) Cartagena de Indias at night. http://www.theportfolioproject.org/guests/faustogiaccone/portraitsfromtheshadows/e39E19E39 Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.theportfolioproject.org/guests/faustogiaccone/portraitsfromtheshadows/e29FD6BEE

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]]> info@theportfolioproject.org (THE PORTFOLIO PROJECT | thinking photography differently) Sucre, a fisherman in the Mojana's marsh. http://www.theportfolioproject.org/guests/faustogiaccone/portraitsfromtheshadows/e29FD6BEE Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.theportfolioproject.org/guests/faustogiaccone/portraitsfromtheshadows/e2F9DE4FE

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]]> info@theportfolioproject.org (THE PORTFOLIO PROJECT | thinking photography differently) Aracataca. A girl in the channel coming from the Aracataca river. http://www.theportfolioproject.org/guests/faustogiaccone/portraitsfromtheshadows/e2F9DE4FE Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.theportfolioproject.org/guests/faustogiaccone/portraitsfromtheshadows/e2BFFE02A

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]]> info@theportfolioproject.org (THE PORTFOLIO PROJECT | thinking photography differently) Aracataca. A boy in the local pool room. http://www.theportfolioproject.org/guests/faustogiaccone/portraitsfromtheshadows/e2BFFE02A Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.theportfolioproject.org/guests/faustogiaccone/portraitsfromtheshadows/e3CD5E13A

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]]> info@theportfolioproject.org (THE PORTFOLIO PROJECT | thinking photography differently) Nueva Venecia. A fisherman resting. http://www.theportfolioproject.org/guests/faustogiaccone/portraitsfromtheshadows/e3CD5E13A Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT