Rebellion

   © Guillermo Labarca

iThis, the 46, is a special issue of the magazine, we are taking a look at what we've been up to. In 2016 we did a similar one, number 29, which covered a period of eight years, from 2008 to 2016. In this number 46 we look at five years, from 2016 to 2021.

We publish in this number a photo of each work presented in this last period. The first time we looked back, we defined ourselves as extravagant, “rare bird”, because we made this magazine out of “love of art” and we also defined the photographers who published here as strange beings because they did so for the same reasons.

We continue to have the same motivations and we continue to think the same of the photographers who publish their work here. We also think that what we do, editors, photographers and readers is to express rebellion.

Rebellion against certain features of contemporary culture, such as, for example, valuing any object or action for its price and not because of - redundancy is worth - its value. Paying more attention to the protagonist than to what they produce. Leting the decibels be more decisive than the arguments. Making marketing to have more weight than quality, and so many more.

We rebel against these features because they directly affect photography and that matters a lot to us. We see that there is a cult of the author of which there is much talk, of his biography, of the way he lives or lived, of his sexual, political or whatever orientation they have and very little of the works. We react to this and also to the noise that accompanies the search for notoriety.

These rebellions are, at the same time, a search for quality, of interest in a work well done, of honesty, of not getting caught up in fashions or gimmicky resources, of love for photography, of not using it for other purposes but of seeking to do well-finished works. That is what the photographers who publish here show in their work. It can also be seen in the fact that they collaborate with a magazine with these characteristics, because, although they have a high reputation and are well positioned in the market, they accept to publish here without expecting any other reward than the appreciation of the readers.

This rebellion is, then, a political act as it seeks a better world for something that matters to us.