Journal of photographer Flemming Bo Jensen

Photographer, Time Traveler, Writer and Nomad

Posts tagged “andes

Bolivia Remembered

Posted on Tuesday 4 December 2012

Bolivia, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, December 2011. The camera stares at, grins at me lying on my hostel bed in tropical heat–I shoot angry glares back. The camera has been kicking my butt every day for some weeks and I hate it right now. Despise photography. But I need to pick it up and go create something. Need an outlet. A dark storm hovers in my mind, I am depressed, all purpose seems lost and recent events including a suicide made me fall in a black hole devoid of all light. I walk the world feeling completely disconnected from human life. Despising myself and my existence. As always, light this bright casts some very dark shadows. Despite an abundance of sun light in…

Walk towards the Mountain

Posted on Sunday 20 May 2012

“As long as I keep walking towards the mountain I will be alright” — from Neil Gaiman’s incredibly inspirational keynote address. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. There is no other path for me. This is it. It is madness for most, but it is what I want to do, have to do, must do, put here to do. Have to go and do it. Walk towards the mountain. I will listen to Neil’s advice “Make your art. Do the stuff that only you can do. Make up your own rules.” There is but one path for me. Towards the mountain. Mad and magic dreams, always.

Puedo tomar una foto?

Posted on Tuesday 17 April 2012

It had proved to be surprisingly hard. Almost everyone said no. Some people even ducked and escaped the streets as soon as they spotted my camera. No amount of small talk by me could convince people to be in the frame. Getting any portraits in the small Andes Mountain towns of northwestern Argentina required stealing images. Maybe I was just having really bad luck. Every day. But this lovely woman in the desert town of San Antonio de Los Cobres was different. She initially said no as she passed me. Expecting this, I just shrugged, smiled and sat down in the shade. You have to sit in the shade in San Antonio de Los Cobres. The sun in the desert at 3.8k altitude boils…

Peru Photo Story: Solitude

Posted on Monday 23 January 2012

The Andes. Ancient and majestic mountains, windy, cold and unforgiving. The road snakes through the desolate and uninviting landscape. The sky is white, the wind fierce and colours are muted to a stark monochrome mood. Yet, here in this extreme environment people live and make their lives. More a mood than a story, these pictures were made in the Andes mountains of Peru driving from Arequipa to Chivay. This was the third story I submitted for the group reviews in the brilliant Adam Weintraub PhotoExperience.net workshop with Daniel Milnor. The solitude spoke to me instantly. I know it well having mapped out that feeling intensely. I chose black and white as I wished to do a different story at this time in the workshop,…