Paco Feria / photojournalist

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Woman under a burka

Chitral, Pakistán, Febuary / 2002
It was February 2002, I was shooting the Afghan refugees in Chitral town in the north of Pakistan, they fleed from the U.S bombing in their country Afghanistan, they crossed to Pakistan through the icy mountains of the Hindu-Kush.
When I went into the tent  I did not see the bulk at the background, the man was posing ahead with his daughter, but suddenly, I realized that such bulk was a woman completely covered by a burka, I called the interpreter and asked him that the woman posed for the photo too, but she resisted, only her husband get convince her, despite that, she just left me see her eyes through the folds of the burka.
Really I don’t know but, later, while seeing this picture , I can not avoid  think about her  as a super-refugee, a refugee from the war, but also from  her own culture, her religion, her neighbors, her husband… her own life.
And, how to explain the glance of the little girl?, I feel restless about it ,  my soul is pierced by her tenderest misery, for her bleak future, something is sure about her, some day her life will be buried under a burka too, and so, she become another super-refugee for the rest of her days, like her own mother.
Not to be! … That’s the question.

Martin Sheen… and Me

Martin Sheen / Madrid 2007

My friend, Claudio Lauria, Director of the Environmental Film Festival of Catalonia, proposed me to travel to Madrid city along with his team in order to make an interview to actor Martin Sheen, well, I said, it isn’t my field photographing celebrities and / or artists, but I do not regret about that trip because meet to mister  Martin Sheen was to make another friend (so,  just Martin  from now on ).

The fact is that Martin is a great guy, simple and absolutely no divo, for me he will remain always as the Captain Willard, his role in the Apocalypse Now film, in search of the mad colonel Kutz (Marlon Brando) inside the Cambodian jungle, after meeting and chat with him I decided  to emulate their role in that film, but without guns or crazy adventures, just to travel to Cambodia along  the Mekong River while  photographing everything in front of my eyes , I reached this goal on May / June 2007.

Well, as I was saying, Martin is a great guy, it was sufficient a data that he gave me, he told that his real name was not Martin Sheen … but Ramon Estevez instead, he saw me his California driver’s license to confirm it, but the relevant issue was not that, many people, some for artistic reasonss, and others in order to hide their real origins (Spain, champion of the World in that area), change their names.
But Martin not only did not renounce to his name, Ramón Estevez, but also he was very proud for it, as well as about his  Spanish origin, live to see!, that fact  immediately aroused my sympathies, Martin said that the name Martin Sheen was just a a sort of logo, not his real name, good for you Martin!, sorry, I meant … Ramon.