Dunno 'bout you, but I'm rooting for Uruguay...
... if only because the longer they're in the running, the more images my boy Yamandu Roos gets to take in the cities, townships and stadia of S. A.
Yamnadu is there hanging with the Uruguay team - doing a project with his father for Uruguayan TV.
When he's not rolling with the team, it's obvious that he's extending the geographical reach of his Europeans project ( just a little).
There's always a subtlety and painterly nature about Mandu's work...
His images never totally reveal themselves at first glance - it has 'cool' media qualities as McLuhan would say.
The same quality of attention he invests in his ongoing Europeans is also evident here.
What's captured in the portraiture for example, is a capacity to edit with his eye and a response...
...the response of the subject to him - the conversation, the way he's engaging with them during or just before the picture is taken.
You get a sense of him, of his energy in every image. It's the same maybe with all great photographers.
(click on image to enlarge).
check him out: http://www.yamandu.org/
