A fine Eastern Pende Panya-Gombe African mask. Coll.: David Norden
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A fine Eastern Pende Panya-Gombe African mask. Coll.: David Norden |
HECTOR ACEBES
Most photographers made no attempt to depict anything but the most crude stereotypes of what white Europeans and Americans expected or wanted to see. Acebes was a glaring exception.
The photographer recently celebrated his 85th anniversary and lives in Bogotá, Colombia. Acebes’ little known work has been rediscovered by the Brussels MoBa
gallery, who is staging this solo show with thirty silver gelatin prints in a
European premier entitled “Hector Acebes: Portraits in Africa 1948-1953.” see more images at http://www.moba.be/acebes_gallery.html |
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His subjects were the people, of all ages and social positions, from the most
remote, primitive areas of the continent, to the most metropolitan of cities.
But his camera and his perspective caught something special. While other
photographers used 35mm cameras, which they pointed like a gun at the subject,
Acebes preferred a Rolleiflex, a camera he held at belt level, composing the
shot by looking down. The photographer could then look up and make eye contact
with the subject a second before releasing the shutter. The result captured that
bit of personality and humanity so wanting in other photos of that era. Acebes
explained that this method was less intimidating and created a personal
relationship with the subject. 
