Juan Hitters: noviembre 2011

miércoles, 30 de noviembre de 2011

At San Juan for Pernod Ricard

Juan spent some days at San Juan shooting the Graffigna estates and winery for Estefania Jacobs and Jean del Pino at Pernod Ricard. Amazing views. And wine, of course.

lunes, 14 de noviembre de 2011

Novecento Cuvee for Dante Robino

Alex Smink and Morita Marino from El Camino hired Juan to shoot the new campaign for Novecento Cuvee, sparkling by Dante Robino Wineries. The campaign should be out already.

New book cover

Juan shot the picture for the cover of the newly released book by Valeria Schapira, "Diario de una mujer posmo". Recommended!

viernes, 11 de noviembre de 2011

"Ventanas al futuro 2011" award

Juan is proud to share the fact that he has been awarded the "Ventanas al futuro, 2011" (Windows to the future, 2011) award for his lifetime contribution to the development of Architecture through his photographic work by CAyC (Centro de Arte y Comunicacion) and Parex/Klaukol. The award acknowledges the work of confirmed professionals and young talents and is intended to encourage originality in architecture. The members of the jury are acclaimed architects and designers such as Carlos Sallaberry, Roberto Converti, Enrique Cordeyro, Carlos Dibar, Juan Carlos Fervenza, Miguel Jurado, Daniel Muñiz y Enrique Pichon Riviere. The awards ceremony will be held November 30th, 2011.

martes, 1 de noviembre de 2011

Juan is featured on the contributor's page of Wallpaper's November issue

What's on the CD player this week

New film about Architect César Pelli

What's on the CD player this week

"Sound City": real to reel. Dave Grohl has put together many wonderful musicians and directed a documentary film called Sound City. The movie is about the sheer joy of playing and recording plain (or not so plain) rock music starring Chris Goss, Joshua Homme, Rupert Neve, Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty, Trent Reznor, Rick Rubin and Paul Mc Cartney to name just a few. The soundtrack is a true marvel, similar in a way to Slash's first solo album. It has been on steady rotation since I came back from Sydney.

Keith Jarrett at Teatro Colon

Tonight Keith Jarrett is improvising on the piano at Teatro Colon. It has been nearly three decades since I listened to "The Köln Concert" for the first time. The experience was revealing. It is probably one of the albums I have enjoyed the most. I clearly remember once driving with friends along a deserted road someplace in Uruguay while listening to Keith play the old Bösendorfer in Cologne. The compact cassette sounded awful, but I could do nothing but wonder: listening to this beautiful music recorded many years ago, in a far away city, while driving through this lonely country, was magic! Well, life has been good to me, and gave me the opportunity of contributing to ECM on Keith Jarrett's "Testament" album cover, a recording of two improvised concerts in Paris and London. This was a couple of years ago. Tonight I will be listening to the man himself, no state of the art recording or crappy cassette, just an incredible musician playing the piano. You bet I am looking forward to this experience.