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April 30, 2012 by heber vega
Haunted Memories
It’s not that I don’t have fond memories to recall. But I have a haunting memory that I need to get out of me. I’ve been thinking about my childhood; I’ve been trying to reconcile with my past, a past that I try to put together a piece at a time for my children to [...]Archive
February 23, 2012 by heber vega
Open to Collaborative Work
It took me longer than I wanted, but this post is finally here. With this post I’m closing a series, written mainly about creativity and inspiration, but also the process behind creating a specific project. Here are the previous posts in the series: 1. Connecting the ‘Why and the ‘How’. (Process/vision through to execution of a [...]Archive
February 6, 2012 by heber vega
The Benefit of Challenge
A month ago when I was scheduling posts for my blog, I didn’t think that some of these posts were necessarily related. But now after publishing the last two, I can see that there’s a back bone joining them all together. Here are the posts I’m talking about: Connecting the ‘Why’ and the ‘How’. (Process/vision [...]Archive
February 1, 2012 by heber vega
Training our creativity
This last Monday, I put together a blog post about connecting the ‘why’ and the ‘how’ for a story or project. I was basically outlining the creativity process that goes from a concept, idea or vision, through the tools or elements that are needed to transform that concept into a final product. Well, I want [...]Archive
January 30, 2012 by heber vega
Connecting the ‘Why’ and the ‘How’
Two weeks ago I submitted a story for a guest post, called “Haunted Memories”. It was published in this place. Today I want to talk about the process behind those images, not just the ‘how’ but also the ‘why’. What distinguishes an artist and photographer is the ‘why’, or his/her vision behind the work. That [...]Archive
January 17, 2012 by heber vega
Guest Blogging – “Haunted Memories”
Today I’m guest blogging at a friend’s Blog. The special thing about this post is that it isn’t just another Blog post for me. This is a very intimate, deep and difficult story of my childhood that I had to put into words and photographs. I’m really thankful for this challenge, thanks to Jose Martinez. [...]Archive
October 27, 2011 by heber vega
Assignment: The Other Iraq (And the other Me)
A couple months ago, I contacted one of the main newspapers in Chile, called La Tercera. It publishes a Sunday magazine that has a very unique approach to storytelling. This magazine, El Semanal, is not based on documentaries, reports, analysis or interviews, which is the norm for a publication like that in Chile. Instead, El [...]Archive
May 23, 2011 by heber vega
Reconstruction Stories – What I’m learning about Multimedia
Well, it’s very busy these days in Iraq. So many things to do and so few hours to accomplish them! Anyway, after a whole week of working on administrative things, meaning by that, no photography work, it was great to have had time over the weekend to finish my work on this multimedia piece. I’m [...]Archive
December 1, 2010 by heber vega