Ishmael Rodriguez
PHOTOGRAPHER
STATEMENT
I have always been tireless trying to decipher enigmas and photography is one of them.
We know that a photo is a physical body, suspended or posed, from which capricious 127 shadows emanate that make it shine from within, that is where the stridency of light appears and turns it into a frozen fragment of time...
Studies:
He began his career as a Photographer in 1987 in Havana, Cuba. Study at the Faculty of Arts and Letters of the University of Havana, 1985-1987.
He received the Liquid Light Emulsion Workshop with Magali Moreau, Paris France.
He received a Workshop on Photographic Nude with Rafael Navarro, Center for the Development of
Visual Arts, Photo Library of Cuba, 1999.
He received the Maine Photographic Workshops Black and White Professional Lab Fellowship, 2000, Camden, Maine USA.
He received a Photography and Design Workshop with Stacy Bogue from Parson's School of Design. Photo Library of Cuba, 2001.
Solo Exhibitions: (Selection)
Gestures, 1994, 10 de Octubre Gallery, Havana
Out Machine, 1997, Cuban Fototeca, Havana
Retrospective, 1998, Zerdust Sanat Gallery, Ankara, Turkey
Private Spaces 2000, Union Hall Gallery Rockport Maine
Private Spaces 2001, Books and Books Gallery, Miami, EEUU
Made in Cuba, 2001, (Video Installation), Cuban Fototeca, Havana
The Ark, 2004, Betzalel Gallery, Havana
A Wind to the Havana, 2012, Tokyo Polytechnic University Gallery, Tokyo. Japan
Group Exhibitions (More than 80).
1989, Un Mundo bajo nuestros pies, Cuban Photo-Gallery, Havana.
1997, Contemporary Iberoamerican Photography, Cervantes Institute Utrecht Holland.
1997, A Mitad del Sueno II, Diego Rivera Museum Guanajuato Mexico.
1997, CUBA 1967-1997 Venerie Gallery Brussels, Belgium
1998, CUBA: 100 Años de fotografía, Casa de América, Madrid, España.
1998, Desnudas y Cuba, Palco Gallery, Tokyo Japan.
1998, Contemporary Cuban Photography, Aytika Gallery Athens Greece.
1998, Malecon Proyect, Ibero-American Extremaduran Museum, Badajoz. Spain.
1999, Image and Presence of Havana, Santiago de Compostela University. Spain.
2001, 4 Cuban Photographers, Miami Dade Comunity Gallery, Miami, EEUU.
2001, Five Urban Stories, Ludwig Fundation of Cuba.
2001, Indoors-Outdoors, Seattle, EEUU.
2003, PULSIONES, 8th Havana Biennial, Jose Marti National Library.
2006, The Dynamics of the Trip.(Guest) 9th Havana Biennial, Terminal La Coubre.
2010, DARWING, A diferent look, Natural History Museum, Havana.
2012, Contemporary Cuban Photographers, Emerald Art Center Gallery, Sprinfield, Oregon EEUU.
Professional work:
I work for more than 25 years as a photographer and printer in different media in Cuba, Tablas Magazine, Conjunto Magazine, Tribuna de La Habana Newspaper, Cuban Art Magazine.
He worked as a printer for great Masters of Cuban photography, such as Alberto Korda, Raúl Corrales, Constantino Arias Miranda.
I work in the production and editing team of Cuba 100 years of photography, Anthology of Cuban Photography 1898-1998 and the Malecón Project 1999.
He was the cinematographer of the film "Made in Cuba", exhibited at Fototeca de Cuba, 1999.
He was director of photography of the Video Art "Koniec", expo Hermano Saiz Association, 2001.
His photographs are published in a dozen Books, Catalogs and Magazines in different countries such as Cuba, Japan, USA, Spain, France and others.
Collections:
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art Collection.
Benny Adler Collection, Belgium.
Private Collection Polytechnic University of Tokyo
Kawasaki City Museum Collection.
Cuban Photo Library Collection.
Collection Zerdust Sanat Gallery, Ankara Türkey.
Collection of the Ken Damy Museum of Contemporary Photography, Brescia Italy.
Publications:
Book, CUBA: 100 Years of Photography, Editorial Mestizo A.C. Murcia, Spain.
Book, The Seduction of La Mirada, Ediciones Polymita S.A. Guatemala city.
Fotonoviembre Catalog 97. Santiago de Cuba, Grupo Impresor México.
Catalog National Salon of Photography, Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, Cuba.
Cuban magazine Tables of scenic arts for more than four years.
Book, Malecón Extremadura-Havana Cultural Project. Centiñera Projects S.L.
Catalog, PULSIONS, Contemporary Cuban Photography VIII Havana Biennial.
(Publisher, Linotype Bolívar S en C, Bogotá Colombia).
Cuban Art Magazine, National Council of Plastic Arts, Cuban Art Editions.