Who printed it?
Shenzhen Longyin Printing Packing Co. – China. Publishing House Igneo/Ediquid
Who designed it?
Gisela Viloria, a great Venezuelan designer of photo books.
Who edited the images?
Two great photographers Ramon Grandal, Ricardo Jimenez and me.
How many did you make?
500 copies
How many times a year do you send out promos?
First time I sent a promotion to aphotoeditor.com, I appreciate the opportunity
How did this promo come about?
I’ll share with you the text, presentation of IN-XILIOS:Everybody knows that to emigrate it’s not an easy process, a lot of things has been said about it. The exterior landscape changes but it also changes the inner landscape. How a photographer looks at both landscapes? How to commune within himself the exterior and the interior? What remains in his gaze and transfers from the old home to the new one? These are the questions I tried to answer through 76 images (76 keys) at In-Xilios: a visual essay my experience as an emigrant Venezuelan photographer who is watching and discovering Panama, my current living place and, at the same time, rediscovering myself because, at the end, travels are exactly for that. There is no objectivity in this book, every image is a frame of mind and there’s a long time that photography stopped pretending to be objective. Each one of these images is a notation about a process -the travel, the migration- that is a initiation ritual: we set out from a state of mind to transform ourselves and return being another. On the road, all the Circes and Laestrygonians, all the landscapes, all the times we dream about Ithaca. Aaron Sosa/Kelly Martínez, Publishing House Igneo/Ediquid
What has the response been from the book?
The book has been very well received. It is selling the USA, Venezuela and Panama. also available on eBay and on my web site. In addition, the book is already part of many libraries of schools of photography in several countries.
What type of assignments were you hoping to get through this promo or was it more self expression with no real commercial target?
It was a rather free expression. Authorial photograph has an exclusive audience. It is not “pretty” but rather photos of photos with a great deal of subjectivity.