Guest Lecture: Richard Page
Richard Page is a landscape and documentary photographer, he shoots on a medium format film camera and he came to speak to us about his most recent ongoing projects: Looking for Cervantes | Loosing Velzquez and The Dialogue of the Dogs.
- Looked into the story behind the buried body of the Miguel de Cevantes, author of Don Quixote (based in Madrid)
- Similar story of the unfound body happened 20 years earlier with a famous Spanish painter, Diego Velázquez.
- He tried to dig up the past and locate something.
- His photographs have no direct relationship with the uncovering of the bodies, they just allude to the idea of it.
- Photographing via traces.
- He was alludes to something being there, but it cannot be photographed directly.
- Traces and spaces; haunted spaces.
- Wanted to know more about the history of Spain – relating back to the civil war and all the bodies and missing graves from that time.
- The Spaniards, dug up bodies, photographed then and then buried them again!
- In Spain the dead are more alive than the dead of any other place in the world. – Frederico Gracia Lorca, 1933
- Overall the work is very melancholy, yet still contains colour and hope in that colour.
- He discovered Christopher Columbus, who travelled more dead than alive.
- Retraced some of the steps of Miguel de Cervantes for The Dialogue of the Dogs.
- What we already know photobook.
