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            <title><![CDATA[My 2023! “as in 2007”]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Pablo Morcillo]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2024 14:44:25 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2024-01-20T14:44:25.546Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/595/1*eUYyo4CMo6LhBj3BScbLvQ.jpeg" /><figcaption>Barcelona women</figcaption></figure><p>Some days before 2024 started, I was talking with some friends about my 2023, and I was saying that since I’m an adult, maybe it’s my best year by far. Because it started with a normal me and being unemployee, but my first 5 months until may went really good. But in may I found a job in a car rental company, well paid and with an amazing team of peculiar and kind people.</p><p>Then, two of the best things that happen to me in the last 10 years happened.</p><p>The first one was, i think in June, one of my best friends came back to my home town 16 years later since the police told him to leave the country, as he did not have his papers in order. My friend and I met in 2007 when we decided to organize a small festival between him and I only.<br>The months in which we gave everything to organize it were unique.<br>I used to work from 9 in the morning to 9 at night, stopping 3 hours for lunch, then from 9 at night until the wee hours of the morning, sometimes even splicing the night with the day by going back to work. All this with love and passion to organize something as best as possible.</p><p>The event happened at the end of August 2007 and on September 11th he was flying to Brazil, a great friendship was born where we formed each other and learned how to make an event.<br>He left and told me that in one year he would be back, and it was not one, but 16 years.<br>I had the normal tension of thinking that when we would see each other again it would not be the same, but having given each other our blows, we flowed again as in 2007. Now he is still here and I wish he would stay.</p><p>Another good reason was my first trip with my mother it was just me and her.</p><p>And also I visited a good friend in Barcelona. Small reason but it counts.</p><p>I think this summer I hadn’t seen my niece and nephew for 8 years, and luckily we saw each other in August. We had 9 unforgettable days where we went to the beach a lot and had a great time, they are 2 excellent little people, my niece with 15 years old and my nephew with 11 were like alcohol for my wounds. Another great reason to be a great year, that close to end, we went to Ireland to enjoy New Year’s Eve and the first week of the year with them. I think there is no better way to close a wonderful year and open another one, but surely a little easier thanks to them.</p><p>As Sigmund Freud said:</p><p>Modern science has not yet produced a soothing medicine as effective as kind words are.</p><h4>Pablo Morcillo. 20/01/2024 - 15:26h</h4><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=9fb602bcd1bb" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Dignidad Volátil-Volatile Dignity (ESP-ENG)]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2021 10:11:10 GMT</pubDate>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/280/1*s3H2RJWyJOUVwaffhgoeaQ.jpeg" /></figure><p>La academia de la lengua española asocia la palabra <strong>dignidad</strong>, del latín “<em>dignitas</em>”, con merecedor, honor, excelencia o mérito y por otro lado, <strong>volátil</strong>, de latín “<em>volatilis</em>” significa yo vuelo y la asocia con otras como inconstante, inestable, oscilante o poco predecible.</p><p>Para mí es la palabra, “volátil”, la que define más precisamente un sentimiento que tengo sobre los tiempos que vivimos. Ya que me parece estar como colgando de un hilo, no yo, sino mi vida, todo lo que me rodea, de lo que dependo y lo que depende de mí. ¿Qué sucedería si lo dejara todo marchar? No lo sé, soy incapaz de dejar de encargarme de lo poco o mucho que depende de mí, aunque siempre me acompañe la sensación de poder y deber estar haciendo más. Es entonces cuando esta carrera de fondo acaba por convertirse en una carrera sin meta, sino tan sólo obstáculos y vallas sin fin a la vista. El creer continuamente que no puedo simplemente seguir recto, sino que he de encontrar el modo de esquivar golpes y convertirme en especialista de ello. Convertir mi estrategia en pura defensa, ya que el ataque como tal, nunca me ha aportado mucho.</p><p>Bien como defensa central, como persona que ha decidido alejar de su vida aquellas cosas y personas que deciden atacarme, me encuentro los efectos secundarios de todo esto. El aislamiento y con él, el exceso de permitirme darle vueltas a aquello que ya zanjé, junto más efectos como dudar de aquello que no me da motivos, incluso ver motivos donde no los hay. Acabo creyendo palpar los límites de lo que no los tiene. Encontrarme irascible y ver mi capacidad de autocontrol reducida, volcar en otros mis carencias, incluso uno se acaba sintiendo superior a otros cuando nunca antes lo había hecho. Gracias a que tengo la capacidad de utilizar el pensamiento crítico (algo que aconsejo poner en práctica) incluso en aquello que forma parte de quien soy, para rechazar o reforzar aquellas partes de mi que se encuentran a la gresca.</p><p>Todos y cada uno de los valores que me hacen ser yo pierden peso, ya que siempre que entro en ese bucle, la seguridad o la esperanza dejan de formar parte de aquellos factores con los que cuento para formar mi hoy y mi mañana. Si todo es tan poco predecible, ¿cómo me adapto para llevar una vida dentro de un cauce?. Obvio, el desborde es una posibilidad y siempre lo fue, pero si nuestros mayores, que son quienes, en muchos casos, han vivido guerra y pobreza, han conseguido dejar esto atrás y llevar su vida desde la dignidad, ¿por qué yo no soy capaz de ello?.</p><p>Lo que me lleva a reflexionar sobre la sapiencia de estos. En mi caso, mis abuelos y abuelas no han hablado jamás del pasado, ni para bien. ni para mal. Ellos simplemente vivían con una calma y una paz interior pasmosa, que nos deberían estar dejando como legado y no entiendo por qué parece que no es así. Ellos tienen esa respuesta, que reside en algún lugar de nuestro ADN. Esa respuesta a una pregunta que siento que me va quitando la vida y que sospecho que no solo a mi, sino que pienso que somos muchos los que no encontramos la manera de utilizar esa dignidad a nuestro favor, los que no nos sentimos seguros de nuestro porvenir, de si merecemos o nos hemos ganado ese estado mental.</p><p>Sea como fuere, el que planteo, es para mi es un tema que no tiene una salida clara, de los que tenemos a día de hoy. Sin duda es un signo de los tiempos que vivimos y será responsabilidad nuestra querer encontrar respuestas.</p><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/318/1*MybT-YrdPqE3B9Ef6ScaZA.jpeg" /></figure><p>Vivir en esta incertidumbre suscita que se merme la motivación y las ganas a mucha gente, esta lucha es de largo recorrido y debo llegar a la catarsis, la purga, un antes y un después donde aproveche la ola para reiniciar la energía y no sólo ésta, sino aquello en lo que creo, también lo establecido y aprovechar para peritar las columnas de mi existencia, hacer inventario y balance de las bases de lo que me hace ser como soy. Uno de esos tiempos en los que el tren no solo me sirve como medio de transporte, sino que de refresco y tiende a la reflexión y la toma de decisiones. Y uno de esos ciclos en los que me abruma entender el peso y la relevancia de mi existencia y la de mis seres queridos. Esas veces en las que el mar, con su sonido, la cadencia de sus olas, sus reflejos y su cielo, me hacen el favor de funcionar como tubo de escape, como terapia cargada de importancia. Todas y todos nos debemos esos momentos, tanto como buscarlos con empeño cuando no llegan.</p><p>Mucho más allá de lo que yo pueda creer que necesito para ser “feliz”, más lejos de donde dejé mi infancia, si es que la dejé en algún lugar, allá donde el exceso de mi esencia empalagaba el olfato. En aquel lugar en el que nadie se permitía fallarse a sí mismo, en el sitio donde no existía la opción de ser mala persona. Creo que es entonces cuando dejo de estar pendiente del ahora para poner el foco en entender y en volver a aprender si es necesario, es ahí donde dejo mis brazos abiertos a la brisa para que el viento, de procedencia desconocida, acaricie mi piel y airee mis ideas.</p><p>Volver no sucede siempre por decisión propia, es el peso de ley de vida. Volver a ser consciente de que vivo tiempos en los que deja de importar todo aquello que intenta llegar más allá de la fachada de enfrente. Vuelven a regir las normas autoimpuestas por ti y por mi. Ya que ahora lo que parece relevante es que todo vaya rápido, y pese a que no quiero que así sea, me meto en el molde porque no me queda otra… creo… bueno, no lo sé, ¿o sí?…</p><p>The academy of the Spanish language associates the word dignity, from the Latin “dignitas”, with deserving, honor, excellence or merit and on the other hand, volatile, from the Latin “volatilis” means I fly and associates it with others as inconstant, unstable, oscillating or unpredictable.</p><p>For me it is the word, “volatile”, the one that defines more precisely a feeling that I have about the times we live in. Since it seems to me to be hanging by a thread, not me, but my life, everything that surrounds me, what I depend on and what depends on me. What if you let it all go? I do not know, I am unable to stop taking care of the little or much that depends on me, although the feeling of power always accompanies me and I should be doing more. It is then that this long-distance race ends up becoming a race without a goal, but only obstacles and hurdles with no end in sight. Continually believing that I can’t just go straight, but have to find a way to dodge blows and become a specialist at it. Turning my strategy into pure defense, since the attack as such has never contributed much to me.</p><p>Well as a central defender, as a person who has decided to remove from his life those things and people who decide to attack me, I find the side effects of all this. The isolation and with it, the excess of allowing myself to think about what I have already settled, along with more effects such as doubting what does not give me reasons, even seeing reasons where there are none. I end up believing that I feel the limits of what does not have them. Finding myself irascible and seeing my capacity for self-control reduced, turning my deficiencies onto others, even one ends up feeling superior to others when they have never done so before. Thanks to the fact that I have the ability to use critical thinking (something that I advise to put into practice) even in what is part of who I am, to reject or reinforce those parts of me that are at odds.</p><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/571/1*onydSrJEokORvYG9m-Zd6A.png" /></figure><p>Each and every one of the values ​​that make me be me lose weight, since whenever I enter that loop, security or hope cease to be part of those factors that I count on to form my today and my tomorrow. If everything is so unpredictable, how do I adapt to lead a life within a riverbed? Obviously, overflow is a possibility and it always was, but if our elders, who, in many cases, have lived through war and poverty, have managed to leave this behind and lead their lives from dignity, why am I not? capable of it?</p><p>Which leads me to reflect on the wisdom of these. In my case, my grandparents and grandmothers have never talked about the past, not even for the better. not for bad. They simply lived with an amazing calm and inner peace, which should be leaving us as a legacy and I do not understand why it seems that it is not like that. They have that answer, which resides somewhere in our DNA. That answer to a question that I feel is taking my life and that I suspect that not only me, but I think that there are many of us who do not find a way to use that dignity in our favor, those of us who do not feel sure of our to come, whether we deserve or have earned that state of mind.</p><p>Be that as it may, the one I raise is for me an issue that does not have a clear exit, one of those we have today. Without a doubt it is a sign of the times we live in and it will be our responsibility to want to find answers.</p><p>Living in this uncertainty causes a lot of people’s motivation and enthusiasm to wane, this fight is long-term and I must reach catharsis, purge, a before and after where I take advantage of the wave to restart energy and not only this one, but what I believe in, also what is established and take advantage of it to assess the columns of my existence, make an inventory and balance of the bases of what makes me who I am. One of those times in which the train not only serves me as a means of transport, but also as a refreshment and tends to reflection and decision-making. And one of those cycles in which it overwhelms me to understand the weight and relevance of my existence and that of my loved ones. Those times when the sea, with its sound, the cadence of its waves, its reflections and its sky, do me the favor of functioning as an escape tube, as therapy loaded with importance. We all owe ourselvs those moments, as well as looking for them with determination when they don’t arrive.</p><p>Way beyond what I can believe that I need to be “happy”, further from where I left my childhood, if I left it somewhere, there where the excess of my essence cloyed the smell. In that place where no one allowed himself to fail, in the place where there was no option to be a bad person. I think that is when I stop being aware of now to focus on understanding and relearning if necessary, that is where I leave my arms open to the breeze so that the wind, from unknown origin, caresses my skin and breathes my ideas.</p><p>Returning does not always happen by choice, it is the weight of the law of life. To be aware again that I live in times in which everything that tries to reach beyond the front facade ceases to matter. The rules self-imposed by you and me are back in force. Since now what seems relevant is that everything goes quickly, and although I do not want it to be so, I get into the mold because I have no other … I think … well, I don’t know, or is it? .</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=4abcbf234e2" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[My reflection about Paul Graham’s text “photography is easy photography is difficult” (EN/SPA)]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2021 18:24:27 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2022-01-26T10:44:54.976Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>My thought on Paul Graham’s text “photography is easy photography is difficult” (ENG/SPA)</h3><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*Lky1zF9B_FvMRKKTaqVYbw.jpeg" /></figure><p>In the text, Photography is easy, photography is difficult, <strong>Paul Graham</strong> said: &quot;life flows through and around us, moving fast, fast and in all directions.&quot;<br><br>Well, it is obvious that it is unattainable and the mere fact of believing oneself capable of limiting it in some way is a reflection of an ungrateful arrogance and a limited capacity for reflection on mental development.<br><br>Now, is it leading the way to open the debate on whether we should be some kind of life athlete? Or on the contrary, it suggests that it is more advisable to let our existence flow, since very different life cycles will arrive and therefore we should be prepared to receive them without any tension.<br><br>In another paragraph, referring to the value of photography, he says the following: “Perhaps it is the result of years of searching, seeing, thinking about photography? Definitely&quot;.<br><br>On the one hand, the first statement is a reliable fact. Life is practically unattainable, comical as it sounds, but will we achieve greater photographic value after searching, seeing, thinking about it? Are we condemned to a struggle beyond money and time? Yes, but we must introduce many factors that will make this theory complete, what about talent? What about luck, energy, or different abilities or personal situations? It seems obvious that they locate us and help us or block us in our path by being the best version as observers.<br><br>Therefore I want to add another reflection, and it is that whenever we photograph we are subject to chance of that life in motion that Graham talks about, and this is a great value that photography has, and it is that coldness and that dry question that it carries with it. , it retains a factor, let&#39;s call it, romantic or captivating that makes us enter into a different story for each observer. I think that this is unique and therefore another of those factors that enriches this work that must be, by justice, shared.</p><p>___________________</p><p>En el texto, La fotografía es fácil, la fotografía es difícil, <strong>Paul Graham</strong> dijo: “<em>la vida fluye a través y alrededor nuestro, avanzando deprisa, deprisa y en todas direcciones”.</em></p><p>Bien, pues es obvio que es inalcanzable y el mero hecho de creerse capaz de acotarla de alguna manera es un reflejo de una prepotencia ingrata y de una limitada capacidad de reflexión del desarrollo mental.</p><p>Ahora bien, ¿está marcando el camino para abrir el debate de si debemos ser algún tipo de atletas de la vida? o por lo contrario plantea que es más aconsejable dejar fluir a nuestra la existencia, ya que llegarán muy distintos ciclos vitales y por tanto deberíamos de estar preparados para recibirlos sin tensión alguna.</p><p>En otro párrafo, refiriéndose al valor de la fotografía dice lo siguiente: “¿<em>Tal vez sea el resultado de años de buscar, ver, pensar en la fotografía?. Definitivamente”.</em></p><p>Por un lado, la primera afirmación es un hecho fehaciente. La vida es prácticamente inalcanzable, por cómico que suene, pero ¿lograremos mayor valor fotográfico tras buscar, ver, pensar en ella? ¿Estamos condenados a una lucha más allá del dinero y el tiempo? Si, pero debemos de introducir muchos factores que harán que se complete esta teoría, ¿qué hay del talento? ¿ y de la suerte, la energía o las distintas capacidades o situaciones personales? Parece obvio que estas nos ubican y nos ayudan o bloquean en nuestro camino por ser la mejor versión como observadores.</p><p>Por tanto quiero añadir otra reflexión, y es que siempre que fotografiamos estamos supeditados al azar de esa vida en movimiento de la que habla Graham, y esto es un gran valor que tiene la fotografía, y es esa frialdad y esa cuestión seca que lleva consigo, conserva un factor, llamémosle, romántico o cautivador que hace que nos introduzcamos dentro de una historia distinta para cada observador. Pienso que esto es único y por consiguiente otro de esos factores que enriquece este trabajo que ha de ser, por justicia, compartido.</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=e2b2d8d4f70e" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Gordon Parks, civil rights photographer and one-man band. (ENG-ESP)]]></title>
            <link>https://pmorcillo.medium.com/gordon-parks-civil-rights-photographer-and-one-man-band-eng-esp-bdf6445ca34f?source=rss-22c296435ce3------2</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2021 10:50:02 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2024-01-20T14:53:59.540Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>Gordon Parks — civil rights photographer and one-man band. (ENG-ESP)</h3><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*-di4RvPYgFSW_zps7dbQcQ.jpeg" /><figcaption>Gordon Parks</figcaption></figure><p>He was a VIP so outstanding and transversal character in the struggle, he used to accompany his photographs with poems, he was a film director (<strong>SHAFT, The Learning Tree</strong>…), jazz musician and writer, but his natural way of capturing the revolution through direct photography in the street, both anonymous people and famous people, it was decisive.</p><p>Among other things that got the media to reflect the harshness of what was happening. He portrayed such relevant characters at the same time as <strong>Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali or Martin Luther King.</strong></p><p>He photographed segregation and social injustice like no one else, captivating and delighting from his work in <strong>Life magazine</strong>, of which he was the first black photographer, or in the <strong>FSA</strong>, where he worked during the great depression. He did not get to work at <strong>Harper’s Bazaar</strong> because he was black even though they tried to hire him.</p><p><strong>Do you knew anything about him before this article? Leave your comment below.</strong></p><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*cKQDGLfPViIO1l43DxJdhQ.jpeg" /></figure><p>Fue un personaje muy relevante y transversal en la lucha, solía acompañar sus fotografías con poemas, fue director de cine (<strong>SHAFT, The Learning Tree…</strong>) músico de Jazz y escritor, pero su natural forma de captar la revolución mediante la fotografía directa en la calle, tanto a gente anónima como a gente conocida, fue determinante.</p><p>Entre otras cosas que hicieron que los medios reflejaran la crudeza de lo que sucedía. Retrató a personajes tan relevantes contemporáneamente como <strong>Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali o Martin Luther King.</strong></p><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*MqgJrXDYIcbS5-4R6ZO7Zg.jpeg" /><figcaption>Martin Luther King &amp; daughter (e hija)</figcaption></figure><p>Fotografió la segregación y la injusticia social como nadie, cautivando y deleitando desde su trabajo en la revista <strong>Life</strong>, de la que fue el primer fotógrafo negro o en la <strong>FSA</strong>, donde trabajó durante la gran depresión. No llegó a trabajar en <strong>Harper’s Bazaar</strong> por ser negro pese a que intentaron contratarlo.</p><p><strong>¿Conocías algo de él antes de este artículo? Deja tu comentario abajo.</strong></p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=bdf6445ca34f" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[R.I.P Shabba Doo (Ozone)]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2020 15:14:19 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2021-01-04T09:31:31.495Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>R.I.P Shabba Doo (Ozone)(ENG/ESP)</h3><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*tOZTXYGvH30isTyd5lKyZw.png" /><figcaption>Shabba Doo</figcaption></figure><p>I only can talk about what his work made to me. Maybe 1998, after a hood party, my friends and I went to the Alex house and turn on the tv. We were hip hop heads at the time, but no one knew about <strong>“Breakin’” </strong>before, the movie that made us freak out. <strong>Ozone</strong> was the style, the wild style, the movemnt. We were dancing in the livingroom and talking so loud for the time that it was, probably 3am. That movie was the bomb for us, like 3–5teenagers dancing all over the place, seting aside the tables and chairs and letting the beat get into us. We already knew that the outfits of the movie weren’t of the 90’s, we were laughing and joking about that classic short t-shirt, bizarre earring and those necklaces from Crocodile Dundee. But the most important thing was the message of break dancing and of the movie, which were overcoming and fighting for the rights to continue having a place to dance and unity among the people of the hood. That act of collaboration is what brought us together and that I learned from this memory.</p><p>Today, december 31 of this terrible year 2020, <strong>Shabba Doo</strong> has passed away and I thank hip hop for educating me in positive values ​​and showing me that a movement is worth everything.</p><p>Leave me a comment below if you knew him before his death.</p><p>-</p><p>Solo puedo hablar de lo que su trabajo me hizo. Quizás en 1998, después de una fiesta en el barrio, mis amigos y yo fuimos a la casa de Alex y encendimos la televisión. Éramos 100% hip hop en ese momento, pero nadie sabía nada sobre de <strong>“Breakin ‘“</strong>, la película que nos volvió locos. <strong>Ozono</strong> era el estilo, el wild style, el movimiento. Estábamos bailando en le salón y hablando muy alto para la hora que era, probablemente las 3 am. La película fue la bomba para nosotros, entre 3 y 5 adolescentes bailando por todos lados, apartando a un lado las mesas y sillas y dejando que el ritmo entre en nosotros. Ya sabíamos que los outfits de la película no eran de los 90, nos reíamos y bromeábamos sobre esa clásica camiseta corta, el extraño pendiente y esos collares de Cocodrilo Dundee, pero lo más importante fue el mensaje del break dance y de la película, ellos iban superando y luchando por sus derechos para seguir teniendo un lugar para bailar y había gran unidad entre la gente del barrio. Ese acto de colaboración es lo que nos unió y que aprendí de este recuerdo.</p><p>Hoy, 31 de diciembre de este terrible año 2020, ha fallecido <strong>Shabba Doo</strong> y agradezco al hip hop por educarme en valores positivos y mostrarme que un movimiento lo vale todo.</p><p>Déjame un comentario abajo si ya sabías quien era.</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=f98307993ff9" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ernest Withers — civil rights photographer. -ENG/SPA]]></title>
            <link>https://pmorcillo.medium.com/ernest-withers-civil-rights-photographer-eng-spa-d4cd15a8ee57?source=rss-22c296435ce3------2</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Pablo Morcillo]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2020 17:44:08 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2021-01-04T09:46:04.093Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>Ernest Withers — civil rights photographer. (ENG/SPA)</h3><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/700/1*OCLS_trN-fQdv4wao4GNIA.jpeg" /><figcaption><strong>Ernest Withers</strong></figcaption></figure><blockquote>Ernest, was born in august 1922. For 60 years he was a photojournalist who captured, among others, the protests of the Montgomery bus boycott, whose main motive was the arrest of Rosa Parks for not giving up her seat to a white man on the bus. He had a very close relationship with Martin Luther King and was one of the last people to see him in that room 306 of the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis where he was assassinated. Ten years ago (2010), and after his death, it was shown that he was <strong>infiltrated in the FBI</strong> and charged for reporting on the steps of the movement, therefore his photos not only related what happened there but also ended up being evidence that would later be used against of the African American struggle. I recommend his book, “Revolution in black and white”.</blockquote><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/700/1*K1iKQITqijnSG88B3Ag-Bg.jpeg" /></figure><blockquote>Ernest, nacido en agosto del 1922, fue durante 60 años un fotoperiodista que captó entre otras, las protestas del boicot a los autobuses de Montgomery, cuyo motivo principal fue la detención de Rosa Parks por no ceder su asiento a un blanco en el autobús. Tuvo una relación muy cercana a Martin Luther King y fue una de las últimas personas en verlo en aquella habitación 306 del hotel Lorraine de Memphis donde fue asesinado. Hace diez años, ya después de su muerte, se demostró que estuvo <strong>infiltrado en el FBI</strong> y cobraba por informar sobre los pasos del movimiento, por tanto sus fotos no sólo relataban lo que allí sucedía sino que acababan siendo pruebas que luego se utilizarían en contra de la lucha afroamericana. Recomiendo su libro,”Revolution in black and white”.</blockquote><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/302/1*aAWdbNGp2EhDokUsU4aDlA.jpeg" /><figcaption><strong>Martin Luther King</strong></figcaption></figure><p>This article is an extract of my notebook <strong>Fotógrafas/os que documentaron la lucha por los derechos civiles. </strong><a href="https://issuu.com/pablomorcillo/docs/cuaderno_derechos_civiles_vertical">Link HERE</a></p><p>Este artículo es un extracto de mi cuaderno <strong>Fotógrafas/os que documentaron la lucha por los derechos civiles. </strong><a href="https://issuu.com/pablomorcillo/docs/cuaderno_derechos_civiles_vertical">Link aquí</a>.</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=d4cd15a8ee57" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[R.I.P #GeorgeFloyd (ENG-ESP)]]></title>
            <link>https://pmorcillo.medium.com/r-i-p-georgefloyd-ff9d573a9141?source=rss-22c296435ce3------2</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Pablo Morcillo]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2020 20:14:41 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2021-01-04T10:24:33.338Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*RZed4tM6GFR6-Ij31jaZ6A.jpeg" /></figure><p>See, I feel terrible about the facts of George Floyd’s murder.</p><p>We were feeling good as humans with the COVID19 situation and how we are getting over it.</p><p>But is a true fact that we don’t have to relax our minds of the big problems we got as a specie.</p><p>Racism got me broken, is not difficult for me, as a white man, to understand that we are all the same beings. But we don’t have the same conditions, not, we are not valued with the same measuring stick. And you don’t need to travel so much, enough that you talk with people that is living different lifes, that are being filtered day by day and to have to be explaining every step they take and other problems that are in naked eyes.</p><p>But how deep is the problem, that the police that it supposed to be equidistant and be objective, are taking the law by their own. Arresting a collaborative man or woman, and smash their neck or shoot’em or any other crazy decision without any logical reason.</p><p>Please open your mind, believe that you could be in the other side, and understand that after more than 300 years of slavery, black or other degraded person are being assaulted, physically or any other way.</p><p>29/05/2020</p><p>—</p><p>Mira, me siento fatal por los hechos del asesinato de George Floyd.</p><p>Nos sentíamos bien como humanos con esta situación del COVID19 y como lo estábamos superando.</p><p>Pero es una realidad que no debemos relajarnos respecto a los enormes problemas que tenemos como especie.</p><p>El racismo me tiene roto, ya que no es difícil para mi, como hombre blanco, entender que somos los mismos seres humanos. Pero no tenemos las mismas condiciones, no, y no estamos valorados con la misma vara de medir. Y no neceistas viajar mucho, suficiente con hablar con gente que vive vidas diferentes, que día a día, tienen que estar dando explicaciones sobre cada paso que dan y sobre otros problemas que están al desnudo.</p><p>Pero, tan profundo será el problema, que la policía, quienes se supone que deben ser equidistantes y objetivos, se están tomando la ley de su mano. Arrestando a un hombre o mujer colaborativos, y aplastarles el cuello o dispararles o tomar cualquier otra decisión loca sin alguna razón lógica.</p><p>Por favor, abre tu mente, créete que podrías estar en el otro lado y entiende que después de más de 300 años de esclavitud, negros o cualquier otra persona degradada están siendo asaltada físicamente o de cualquier otra manera.</p><p>29/05/2020</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=ff9d573a9141" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Huge decisions in this COVID19 world. (ENG- ESP)]]></title>
            <link>https://pmorcillo.medium.com/huge-decisions-in-this-covid19-world-162ba81cae02?source=rss-22c296435ce3------2</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Pablo Morcillo]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2020 19:19:13 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2021-01-04T09:42:42.682Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you think that you are living hard times, you should be under my skin.</p><p>I’m living this whole situation with the luck of being in a place with nature and animals, for me is important to see the sky and when you are living in a flat, you barely see it, and the depression state of mind after more than two months is terrible. Well, that’s the only good new, because I’m nearly living the sickness of other disease in a close member of my family.</p><p>See, I am understanding some of the most important questions of the life in this weird days, so my mind is working overtime. Every day and night are unique for me and I still learning everyday how I am and how I’m going to be tomorrow.</p><p>Most importantly the people that I take care of, way more important than me.</p><p>—</p><p>Si crees que estás viviendo momentos difíciles, deberías estar en mi piel.</p><p>Estoy viviendo toda esta situación con la suerte de estar en un lugar con naturaleza y animales, para mi es importante ver el cielo y cuando vives en un piso, apenas lo ves, y el estado mental depresivo después de más de dos meses es terrible. Bien, esa es la única buena noticia, porque estoy viviendo de cerca la enfermedad en un miembro de mi familia muy cercano.</p><p>Mira, durante estos días tan raros, estoy comprendiendo algunas de las cuestiones más importantes de la vida y mi mente no deja de trabajar. Cada día y noche son únicas para mi y sigo aprendiendo como estoy y como voy a estar mañana.</p><p>Lo más importante es la gente a la que cuido, mucho más importante que yo.</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=162ba81cae02" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Now I understand the DMX quote "Sometimes I wonder what life’s about”.]]></title>
            <link>https://pmorcillo.medium.com/now-i-understand-the-dmx-quote-sometimes-i-wonder-what-lifes-about-b94ad868f704?source=rss-22c296435ce3------2</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Pablo Morcillo]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2020 12:02:31 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2020-12-28T18:13:55.955Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<h4>I do really feel that the life I’m living is so complicated and easy at the same time. Some people say that I am a mine, and you can get so many things that I got inside, I am gentle and I do my best with people, and that make me feel in peace with the world, but not with me. I feel that I need something else, but, probably I don’t want to need it. I know that I am a good human, but that is not enough for me, I need to keep screwing the life.</h4><h4>So what is life about? Is about stop thinking overtime? Is about keep improving to be my best version? Or is about forget everybody and create my way? Or maybe I got to stop asking me questions and make a move. The last point got tickets for winning the lottery.</h4><h4>However, and deeply thinking, the only one who really cares about my existence is me.</h4><h4>Wow, that’s a really good new, because now I know only I can stop the rain and now I know that only I can work for my life success.</h4><h4>So I’m going to stop licking my wounds and work harder for me.</h4><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=b94ad868f704" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Por ellas.]]></title>
            <link>https://pmorcillo.medium.com/por-ellas-29d1f7271b2e?source=rss-22c296435ce3------2</link>
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            <category><![CDATA[piel]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[feminismo]]></category>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Pablo Morcillo]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2019 17:56:03 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2019-06-11T17:56:03.506Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Allá donde la mujer,</p><p>cambia de sentido,</p><p>hay ausencia de latido,</p><p>y tu futuro no puedes ver.</p><p>No intentes forzar la vela,</p><p>así vivir como otro cualquiera,</p><p>y en la sombra, que no te queda,</p><p>volar hasta que el sol quiera.</p><p>Y comprenderás que hay que querer,</p><p>a cada parte de tu ser,</p><p>para servir a su piel,</p><p>durante lo poco que vive un corcel.</p><p>5/11/2017 20:52h</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=29d1f7271b2e" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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