About Me
It is a difficult task to write about yourself. I don’t even know where to start.
Now: I took an introductory photography course many, many years ago and one for advanced photography more recently, but that’s not the most important thing. I love photography, I love traveling and I love going off-road. I combined these three passions and made them the main activity of my life.
Exhibitions
Living Sand – 06/2018
The sky takes on strange tones. A storm is announced.
Suddenly, a strong wind arises and the desert is shaken.
No drop of water falls. Whirlpools form and the sand seems to come to life, creating strange dances in the air. Unbreathable. Irritating. Invasive, the sands pursues us, harasses us and forces us to seek safe refugee. The road disappears. Before us there are only tracks, scratches, shadows.
Images are formed that Isabel collected, saved and now shows us. Images of a Mauritania that continues to surprise us. Eládio Paramés, June 2018
HIMBAS Women of the World – 06/2019
There are portraits of women stripped of prejudice, proud of the body they display without false modesty. They are portraits of women with a strange beauty in the eyes of those who live subordinate to the dictates of a consumerist society that these people continue to reject. They are portraits of women that do not show the extremely difficult conditions in which they live, but nevertheless reveal that it is possible to be happy.
They are portraits of Himba women, which Isabel Paramés captured, without filters, without lights, without tricks, during an unexpected visit to a lost village in the middle of the forest, somewhere in the Kaokoland region, in Namibia, very close to the border with Angola, where these people emigrated about two centuries ago in search of more fertile land and a better life.
They are portraits of women in the world! Eládio Paramés, June 2019
