Nicolás Aboaf is a photojournalist. For almost two decades he works in that plot that connects journalism, institutional communication and art. Today he is director of photography of the government of the Province of Buenos Airesin addition to covering the parties of River Plate For different media.
“It is not photography and it is not journalism, or it is a bit of the two parties. It is not only technical: you can have the best camera and the best technique, but without the personality to locate, so as not to be ashamed, to ask the protagonist to look at you, you will not have it …”, analyzed during his participation in We seem good friends, the political stream of infocielo.
PHOTOPERIODISM, he insisted, is “Another thing”: “It is to be, encourage to take the picture, to face it,” he said, weighing as an example the famous photo of Pepe Mateos during The Avellaneda massacre, which ended with the lives of Maximiliano Kosteki and Darío Santillán.
Nico Aboaf chooses his favorite photos of Axel Kicillof
As head of photography of the provincial government, ABOAF usually covers the activity of Governor Axel Kicillof. From that task some iconic photos arose, such as that of shoes full of land or the exit of an act in Santa Clara del Mar that was used as the first institutional image of the right movement to the future.
Aboaf made his selection of governor’s favorite shots and gave them the necessary context. The meaning ahead and the story behind.
Thus he narrated and explained how he took a Kicillof campaign photo opening a CAPS in Ensenada -a image that participated in the Argra sample -, the famous photo of the dirty shoes during an act in O’Brien, a creative frame during the pandemic confinement and the aforementioned photo of Mar Chiquita.
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