The Reason of Oranges by BJP Editor
“Three or four years ago, I had a tragedy in my life,” says Ricardo Cases over Skype from his home in Spain. “My mother and a good friend had just died. I was angry with life. I was angry with my friends. I lost a lot of friends at that time, so I moved to Valencia, where I knew nobody. I came here to change my life because I had become a monster.” Cases started El porqué de las naranjas [which translates loosely as ‘the reason of oranges’] while living there.
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For the Birds by Bill Kouwenhoven
Pigeons have an ancient history as companions of man and messengers of the gods. The symbolic value of doves, or rock pigeons as they are known, goes back to Genesis, the first book of the bible. Carrier pigeons have served armies the world over for millennia.
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El Porqué de las Naranjas
In his new work, El Porqué de las Naranjas (The Why of Oranges), Spanish photographer Ricardo Cases does not document the surface symptoms of reality, but instead renders the non-visible, the mechanistic. In his immediate surroundings - the fertile region of Levante in Spain - the photographer reveals ephemeral moments that might otherwise go unnoticed.
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Photographer Ricardo Cases Captures Spain's Pigeon Breeders by Gillian Orr
Born in Orihuela along Spain's south-east coast, Ricardo Cases grew up around this all-male pursuit. Now 43 and living about two hours north, in Valencia, he documented the sport between 2008 and 2011 for a book, Paloma al Aire ("Dove Into the Air") , in which he captures the nature of the breeders as well as their feathered friends. "This is a story about Spaniards," he says, "about humans who play with nature for a sport associated with courtship."
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Ricardo Cases - El Porqué de las Naranjas by Adam Bell
El Porqué de las Naranjas begins with a rhetorical question. Why oranges? More like a nonsensical taunt than a proper title. Why this? Why that? Why not? Composed of various snapshots taken around the region of Levante in Spain, Ricardo Cases’ new book offers an absurdist look at the Mediterranean landscape of a Spanish tourist town. More loosely structured than his critically acclaimed book Paloma del Aire, El Porqué de las Naranjas is shot with the inquisitive and roving eye of a paparazzi.
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Ricardo Cases- El Porqué de las Naranjas by Luis López Navarro
There comes a time for a photographer when documenting visible reality is not enough any more. To document the surface is to document symptoms, consequences, it is to get there late. When one wants to really investigate the life that surrounds us, it becomes necessary to find a way of documenting the not visible, the essential. The mechanisms.
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Die Vögel
Der spanische Fotograf Ricardo Cases zeigt eine spezielle Art des Taubensports: Ein Dutzend bunt bemalter Männchen geht auf ein Weibchen los – wer sich am längsten in seiner Nähe aufhält, gewinnt.
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