World Encounter Magazine - January 2024: The World Travel Issue

JANUARY2024 ISSUE 2

NATURE & TRAVEL

Exploring Mauritius

Kenya. Mombasa

TRAVEL DIARIES

PARIS, FRANCE

THIS IS SPAIN

BY SEIGAR.

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CONTENTS

January 2024

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22 TRAVEL DIARIES CONTENT CREATOR: ELIZAVETA VAHINA IG: @ELIZAVLASOVAA WWW.TIKTOK.COM/@ELIZAVLASOVA WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/CHANNEL/ UCQDLX4AIDQJ88XWAJ00XKXQ

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PHOTOS IN COLD 32 WARM WEATHER PHOTOGRAPHER: MINICH YULIYA IG: @ZDANEVICH_FOTO_MINICH

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42 THIS IS SPAIN BY SEIGAR. PHOTOGRAPHER: SEIGAR IG: @JSEIGAR WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/JSEIGAR TW: HTTPS://TWITTER.COM/JSEIGAR

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70 EUROPE, PRAGUE. APRIL 2023 PHOTOGRAPHER: MINICH YULIYA IG: @ZDANEVICH_FOTO_MINICH

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84 KENYA. MOMBASA PHOTOGRAPHER: LIUDMILA EVSTRATOVA IG: @LUDMILA_EVSTRATOVA07

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THIS IS SPAIN BY SEIGAR. PHOTOGRAPHER: SEIGAR IG: @JSEIGAR WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/JSEIGAR TW: HTTPS://TWITTER.COM/JSEIGAR

This is Spain by Seigar.

This series is a collection of pop urban photographs taken in Madrid (Aranjuez) and Segovia during short trips in the summer. It plays with the concepts of identity and nation. It brings intentional stereotypical images full of saturated colors and light, which are the preconceived ideas people take for granted in Spain. They present existence contained with the use of reflections, some architecture, and touristic views as the setting. Plastic people and other people share dreams in this set. They all seem to be meditating on life and love, planning the next move. The whole impression portrays a country staring at the future and immersed in its thoughts under the glowing sun and heat. In Spain, we are dreamers. We can feel the revolution of love from a Daliesque and camp spy’s perspective. These city narrative tales are frozen in time with the common sensation that if we press play in any of the images, something big can happen. This is Spain.

This series was exhibited in the XV Internacional Photography Biennale of Tenerife: Fotonoviembre 2019, organized by the Photography Center of Tenerife Island, TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, in El Castillo Espacio Cultural de Puerto de la Cruz (Atlántica Colectivas).

Biography.

Seigar is a passionate visual artist based in Tenerife, Spain, specializing in travel, street, social documentary, conceptual, and pop art. He is deeply fascinated by pop culture. This fetishism is evident in his works exploring photography, video art, writing, and collage. A philologist by profession and a secondary school teacher, Seigar is a self taught visual artist, having completed courses in advanced photography, cinema, and television. His artistic mission is to narrate tales through his camera, creating a continuous storyline from his travels and encounters. He has participated in various international exhibitions, festivals, and cultural events, and his works featured by numerous publications worldwide. His recent focus includes documenting identity, and spreading the message of the Latin phrase: Carpe Diem. Seigar was honored with the Rafael Ramos García International Photography Award. He shares his predilections on art and culture on Pop Sonality, his blog.

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