Note: The photos bellow where taken by me but are not representative of my artistic work. To view my official Photography please click here.

I’ve hesitated a lot before deciding to publish this post. I was thinking the content probably fits my Facebook page better, but then the image quality on there is pure rubbish so I thought: why not?

I spent from December 1st /09  to January 3rd /10 in Colombia, half promoting my work and exhibiting, half visiting my family&friends and just having fun. I took several pictures, although not as many as I had planned before the trip. I first wanted to take zillions of pictures, particularly of the beautiful urban landscapes that many people abroad don’t know about (because sadly, a lot of people think Colombia is just an extremely dangerous jungle filled with drug dealers and guerrillas…which is rather far from the truth), and share them here. However, to be honest in Colombia I hardly felt like taking my camera out. I just wanted to be there and enjoy the experience for real -and not behind the camera-. Now I’m hating, for instance, not to have taken enough pictures of Bogotá, my city, the capital.

I did take some pictures, of those things that caught my eye strongly enough as to make me take over my laziness and get the camera working. Most of these pictures where taken in Los Llanos and Subachoque, two very different places with different landscapes and weather, but in the same country. I really enjoyed my time there. Now I’m back on track, in France, with some interesting projects ahead and a lot of pictures to edit from last year. In the mean time, let me just share a bit of where I come from with you…

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I recently realized several images on my Flickr stream have been moderated by the Administration staff of the site.

No one notified me. I just bumped into the fact that some pictures were missing when I wanted to show my stream to a friend in his computer. What a bummer. An invisible individual with apparently higher morals than me can decide whether my images are offensive or not. On Redbubble, an Admin contacted me  to notify that one of my paintings (!), which was considered offensive, had been deleted. They offered me the chance to complain and have my case reconsidered (thing you can try on Flickr as well but you’ll never get an answer). I did complain but nothing ever happened…

These censorship policies really bother me, but hey…what can I do…that´s the way things work. In an environment that seeks to offend the least number of their members, I’m lucky just some of my images have been ‘moderated’ and thankfully I’m not completely ‘unsafe’ for the Flickr community (…) :/

Just wanted to let you know, that if you aren’t signed in and have your safe search filter off, you won’t be able to see my entire stream.

Moderated and not moderated Flickr stream