Family Hotels: Interview with Maria Medina Bethanie Standard

Images: Courtesy Maria Medina Bethanie Standard.

By Agustina Gewerc, Special BAINSPIRATION.

Maria Bethania Medina Padrón is Venezuelan and lives in Buenos Aires two years ago. Is a photographer and his vision of the city is the envy of any: we see from the outside and is amazed with every detail. Habitat found in our everyday situations and landscapes in the maelstrom of everyday life do not stop to look.

A clear example of his view is the recent series of photographs Family Hotels, which is part of the camera in her purse, a book with three sets of three women photographers who recently launched the independent publisher of Heaven fell Un Amor.

Below Mary tells us about his motivations and his view Buenos Aires.

BA Inspiration (BAI): How did your interest in family-run hotels? What caught your attention?
Maria Bethania Medina Padrón (MBMP): It started when I began to see the city. When I arrived I got the Guide T and they told me it was the best way to learn the streets and placed bus trip. I'm very observant and travel by bus so they began to call attention to the houses with signs that said Hotel Family and I began to obsess with it. Whenever I saw a note of the address in a notebook. I had to ask what they were exactly because in Venezuela there are accommodations that name. I learned that long ago people who lived far from the capital during the week came to work here and stay at these hotels to bed and suddenly it became a place where people went to live with their families and I thought super interesting. I decided that was all that could portray. I'm still working on it, so far I have 30 hotels.

BAI: Any time you get into any?
MBMP: One, Once when I was in and a lady opened the door and asked what he was doing, I went and told her that I'm a photographer and the draft. Two minutes later came back and asked if I wanted to spend. I thought that is other work and it's where I like to follow, choose one or two and work on these internal, but that means establishing a relationship with people, settle there for a month and to portray people who live there.
I want to keep because they are things that are there but nobody notices. This is a way to show these places and now my goal is that, show that it is there and no one sees. I spent many times you tell people about the city that I love and that nobody had realized that they were.

BAI: What else do you find interesting in Buenos Aires?
MBMP: I called the attention of Buenos Aires how faithful they are to their cultures, the identity of each neighborhood, and those living there identify with this. Also caught my attention the influence of psychoanalysis and the people here is not so afraid to show what happens. Venezuelans are more reserved on some issues.

BAI:Did you do any other work on your experience in Buenos Aires?
MBMP: In Buenos Aires I first made the series Outsider, which are all pictures of the city out of focus. When I arrived at some point the city I loved, Unlike Buenos Aires Caracas is made for walking, is more free and I was very shocked. So I started taking pictures of places that I called attention, as the Plaza San Martín Palermo and Forests. Remove them out of focus was as a way to express how I felt I just, like the city did not understand much. I liked, but I finished integrating. I'm more stable now I love living here.

BAI: How did the idea of holding the camera in?
MBMP: It was an initiative of the publisher A Love Fell from Heaven. Each of the three photographers were working separately in your project and one day I called because they liked mine and told me if I wanted to participate. Thus began the editing work. Curatorial work did Bodelón Lucia and Veronica Garcia, the owners of the editorial. One day in conjunction with the Carolina González Sticotti and Alejandrina Vignoni, the other two photographers, and there it all began. The intention with the editorial is to get more volume and more photographers call.

BAI: Are you working on some new project?
MBMP: Always struck me as to everybody interested in the private lives of celebrities here, so I started working with some pictures that express what happens to us, each with their emotions. People come here, tell me something that happens, sad positive, what they want. I show their emotions and I took the photo. It has much to do with what I said of psychoanalysis. I would like to assemble a large collection with many different portraits.

The camera goes in the portfolio $50 and is available in this list of libraries.

Links:
BethaniaPadron.com
A love fell from the sky
The camera in the portfolio