Winter sun
Littlle sweet things in life are those for which it pays to be in this world if only for a few years. Sweet Little Things is the alter ego of Rebecca Escabrós, a creative rugged photographer in search of a rising sun at every moment of life. Elegant in soul and form, her camera is an extension of her own lifestyle, able to enrich her own soul in any scene of the daily life. With its light, the winds sculpt new ways just for her. Every element wants to get caught by her camera while moving.
Where does your urge to capture the moment come from?
The truth is that since very young I have always loved watching and retain all moments as possible, but I was short with my retina and I needed a third eye. I’d be lying if I said that since a girl I was playing with cameras, or that I come from a family of artists. No.
I've always been a very private person and "few words", and I guess that photography escaped me (and escapes me) from the world and made me (and makes me) reacquaint myself. "My first camera" (though it really was my mother) was a Kodak Pocket Instamatic and I played a lot with it so I stole it from its crate a lot of times, so ... ... I should be around 10 years at that time. But I just played with it.
I have taken many turns to get where I am right now. My parents, humble, I am very proud of them, were never entirely agree my life was so "artist", they wanted me to explore some "profit" for tomorrow, as my sister. In a way, I listened to them and I studied, I started studying criminology (the third year I left) and then International Trade and Marketing. At the end, I decided to take a year off (but working) to really decide what I wanted to do with my life. I did not like "me" at that time.
After two years, I decided to really devote myself to photography because it was and is the only thing (aside from the music) that really excites me. So the time came to believe in me and putting everything to make me really full. And here we are trying to turn my dreams into reality.
When do you think you get a good photograph?
There are always good photographs in every place, every corner. The nice thing, I think, is to know that "it" becomes wonderful from your point of view, from your eyes. Good photography is the one oneself takes, because you make it special. You and nobody else can see it from your perspective, and that's great.
Is a photograph an act of love?
It’s an act of love, revenge, hatred, depression, eroticism ... whatever you want.
What is your relationship with your own image?
I love self-portraits, but it doesn’t mean I’m egocentric (the opposite). As explained before, I am very private, shameful and shy, and though in my self-portrait seems the opposite is the way I have that people really know me and understand me, a way of uncovering.
And personally, it’s a challenge, a journal of my life ... to know myself. By the time someone comes to know the truth (which I think most people, if not most, die without it), you can come to understand others and the world. And I think that's fantastic, to be able to portrait myself and know that when the others will see my picture, they’ll can be leaded to feelings, emotions and most importantly, know what will cause the feeling of what I was involved at that time.
You use to accompany many of your photographs with personal reflections with which one has the feeling you are making a journal. Do you fear the fact that life unavoidably escapes?
I love this question. As I said, the journal of my life is in those pictures and all the reflections I do with. I like to find myself, and scratch and scratch until you find a lot of questions and create them and try to answer them (or not).
I fear missing out on life. I think I would fear even more if I had chosen another way, the way they wanted me to take, be afraid if you do not enjoy. Everything is just like us, therefore, have to make those ourselves dreams come true.
It seems so sad to see people who have no enthusiasm for anything, it is sad to see they are there just to stay. I think I would fear to be like this.
You work as a music photographer. Under what circumstances would you prefer to portray a band or a solo artist, in the studio, in concert or in a more ordinary?
Here are two of my passions together. I enjoy when I'm like a dwarf in front of them on stage (but I think it's the matter of liking what I hear) and this intensifies the pictures I take.
I would not choose any options you give me as a choice. They are simply different from each other, very different. In one, enjoy the music and try to capture the best moments of the band on stage and on the other hand, promotional photographs of the artists and enjoy their stories.
Actually, I'm a pretty daily photographer (I think) and I like to capture things that happen around me, "without more." By this I mean, I'm passionate about taking the car and decide on the fly session we will do with the groups I've been. Although I always "investigate" a little how they are (with videos, concerts, their blogs, ...). I like to work with them being themselves, to be where they are and not be where I am and most of all I enjoy it as much as I do, and be comfortable. You can know so much a person when you portrait him and it’s a delight how they change while the session is going on. You redirect them a bit to what you want the picture to be, but also respecting their own space. In the end ... they have to be themselves.
You walk through black and white and color with the same force and a high sense of composition, in substance and form, creating a big emotional and vital effect. Which light does it weigh more in your photos, the one that comes to you or your own inner light?
A photography teacher told us that light is important, and yes it is very important. And we had to master it, not let the light masters us. At first, it is difficult, but when you practice it, studying it and getting tame, everything else ... comes with time.
A photography teacher told us that light is important, and yes it is very important. And we had to master it, not let the light masters us. At first, it is difficult, but when you practice it, studying it and getting tame, everything else ... comes with time.
At the time you get this, it's like the light is part of what you do but just a little effort, you know how it will be, you know what force will have. I realized how important light is, and when you add everything in me and all I want to show, my inner light merges with the ambient light and is really great all you can do.
You have to play, the most important thing is to play with both lights, and above to enjoy.
What value do you give to spontaneity in your photos?
A total value. I always say, the camera is part of you, is a part of my body and the pictures come easily, because I like what I see and ... click!, And there is already another picture without thinking, just because it appears, because I like it. It's like the blink, blink without being aware. And I take pictures without being aware, because "I" do it, because the body asks me to do it.
A total value. I always say, the camera is part of you, is a part of my body and the pictures come easily, because I like what I see and ... click!, And there is already another picture without thinking, just because it appears, because I like it. It's like the blink, blink without being aware. And I take pictures without being aware, because "I" do it, because the body asks me to do it.
In total darkness, what do you have?
Many things in the pipeline I should discover and build each passing day.
What is your present’s picture?
Be happy, smile, and show that I'm here for something.