Jose Carlos Soto

Carpa 1488 is now available for download, the last volume of the year 2023 or the first of 2024 as you wish to consider. In any case, it would be better if Analia Castro Bermudez presented us with this new issue of our favorite publication:
Although it cannot be considered a tradition in this editorial and writing mandate, it has been common for us to close the year by presenting one of Jose Carlos Soto's photographic projects. In this Carpa 1488, therefore, we move away, apparently, from the aesthetic progressions of the author. If in previous years we have traveled to the past and visited the artist's hometown, accompanying him on his intense walks, this year, something has changed in the photographer's work. The move, the pandemic and the illness have been left behind and everything seems to indicate that a new stage is opening before him.
Last spring the photographer's brothers took a garden next to the river with a somewhat idealized vision of what it means to work the land and our author, to collaborate, took the shovel and started digging to discover, not without some surprise, that He is quite good, almost naturally, at horticulture and, since then, he has changed his usual work patterns. Thus, the garden takes up the entire morning and the photography and 3D art is left for the afternoon and evening.
After the first months of intense work to start the garden, Jose Carlos took his camera again, in fact to be fair, he grabbed his device and phone and began to photograph his closest surroundings. A project sketched at the end of summer and that was presented to us accompanied by a selection of the vegetables harvested that season by the author and that gave rise to one of the most lively editorial tables in recent years. Not only was that evening memorable because of the gastronomic marathon that Jose Carlos gave us, nothing could have made us happier than seeing the author return to photographing regularly after leaving the medium more than ten years ago.
Before getting to the desserts, the edition had been defined and I decided to distribute the different sections of it among the editors and the general design was left in the hands of Dorita and Paquita with whom the author has been working for a long time in perfect harmony and, As it could not be otherwise, the trips to Fusteret began to work on the new volume. Precisely, in one of the editors' stays at Jose Carlos's house, the idea arose to eliminate all comments or introductions to the different sections that the photographer had thought of to arrange his snapshots. Paquita was the one who decided to transfer to the intros of this Tent the carousel of traditional recipes prepared by the author with products from his garden to replace the usual comments written by his colleagues in office. The recipes arranged in a taste fan prepare the reader to accompany the photographer during his wandering through the fields and forests near his residence. As always, the author renounces placing his photographs spatially or temporally and leaves the door open for us, as viewers, to begin to weave our own lines of perception and evocation in search of the hidden meaning of each image behind the apparent cold objectivity. of all of them.