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    • when rain falls >
      • as it blurs, a wash of rain also takes away a certain degree of clarity while retaining a degree of distorting translucence
    • underground encounters >
      • descending into the depths of the metro is like crossing the threshold between inner and outer human experience, “... in any case, there was only one tunnel, dark and solitary: mine. “... en todo caso, había un solo túnel...
    • consumptions >
      • is an on-going project that approaches civic space as a suggestive canvass of consumption where reality and fiction cross both visually and ideologically
    • cuba waiting >
      • waiting in cuba is what people do, it is a cultural demeanor, a state of mind
    • cuba, una sola idea / a single will >
      • what are we and what will we be but a unique history, a unique idea, a unique will for all time
    • the tunnel of deceit: the barracks >
      • the tunnel was built, the train didn't come
    • the tunnel of deceit: the station that never was >
      • horses and lettered walls
    • unlimited growth inc: writings on the wall, spaces within, spaces whatever >
      • Beyond documenting a suggestive urban setting that displays contrasting civic structures and expressly comments on our global consumer culture, the images explore qualities of subjacent spaces-within...
      • they are fragments of a larger whole, and they are graphic instances of the allusive potentialities of light, darkness, color, disconnection and emptiness characteristic of any-space-whatevers.
    • riot night in canada: vancouver, june 2011 >
      • In as much as some of the store windows displayed mannequins -mostly of female figures-, and commercialized images of alluring femininity, the resulting violence also portrays an implicit aggression, intended or not, towards the human (female) body.
      • The initial photographs have been partially re-imagined and are presented cropped, refragmented, fractured, to establish a complementary relation between elements of form and content.
      • A fragmented/fractured style to portray, and correspond to, a moment of fractured civility.
    • "soy una raya en el mar fantasma en la ciudad": am a ghost in the city, a line in the water, a ray in the sea >
      • "pa una ciudad del norte / yo me fui a trabajar / mi vida la dejé / entre ceuta y gibraltar / soy una raya en el mar / fantasma en la ciudad / mi vida va prohibida / dice la autoridad..." (Manu Chao, Clandestino)
      • to a city in the north / I went looking for work / I left my life / between Africa and Europe / I'm a line, a dash, a ray / in the sea / a ghost in the city / my life is forbidden / according to the law…
    • scenes unseen >
      • to come
enrique manchon photographs...
“When Rain Falls”.  Covered skies. Chances of isolated showers.  Probability of precipitation.  Rain.  Rain, by its presence or its absence, is perhaps the one natural element that most informs what the people of  Vancouver talk about, do or feel, from day to day. “When Rain Falls” is a photographic essay that explores the transformative, esthetic and expressive qualities of this transitory substance.
 
At a visual level,  rain has the power to both provide and take away.  It brings forth a number of scenic layers. 
One is a layer of greyness that permeates and even clouds details in any scene that it affects.  Another is a layer of equalizing blurriness that is perhaps most obvious when looking through car windshields or other windows. As it blurs, a wash of rain also takes away a certain degree of clarity while retaining a degree of distorting translucence.  On the ground, rain can wash away the opacity of things.  Wet surfaces, roads, puddles, become reflective, almost transparent.  

It is these transformative qualities that specifically interest me as expressive elements of a photographic palette. 
The overall results are a canvass of rain punctuated with  existential brush strokes.
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