{"id":23477,"date":"2025-07-22T15:25:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T15:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/?p=23477"},"modified":"2025-07-23T01:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T01:56:09","slug":"eduardo-chacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/2025\/07\/22\/eduardo-chacon\/","title":{"rendered":"Eduardo Chacon"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"23477\" class=\"elementor elementor-23477\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-20985c7 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"20985c7\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-50a3045 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"50a3045\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 22-05-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\tYear of birth: 1960<br>\nWhere do you live: South Florida<br>\nYour education: New England School of Photography<br>\nDescribe your art in three words: Honest. Simple. Universal.<br>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/loco4leica\/\">Instagram<\/a><\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-df83174 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"df83174\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-de0427e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"de0427e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23479 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Eduardo-Chacon-E-C-Portrait-Vert.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Eduardo-Chacon-E-C-Portrait-Vert.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Eduardo-Chacon-E-C-Portrait-Vert-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Eduardo-Chacon-E-C-Portrait-Vert-736x1024.jpg 736w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Eduardo-Chacon-E-C-Portrait-Vert-768x1068.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Eduardo-Chacon-E-C-Portrait-Vert-600x834.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/><\/h4><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You describe your practice as \u201cseeking beauty in the interstices of the human condition.\u201d Can you elaborate on what this means to you in a photographic context?<\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our modern lives have become hectic to such an extent that we have forgotten to truly appreciate the small quotidian moments that allow us to savor them. Those bits of time are the ones I try to capture in my photographs, in order to depict the humanity in every one of us.<\/p><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After a successful career in commercial photography, what prompted your return to documentary and Humanist Photography?<\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I ran my commercial photography studio for about 34 years, and had already been retired for over 10, but once a photographer, always a photographer\u2026<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The urge to go back to wander the world with my camera was always there.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23480 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Eduardo-Chacon-Corpus-Gelati-2023.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Eduardo-Chacon-Corpus-Gelati-2023.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Eduardo-Chacon-Corpus-Gelati-2023-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Eduardo-Chacon-Corpus-Gelati-2023-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Eduardo-Chacon-Corpus-Gelati-2023-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Eduardo-Chacon-Corpus-Gelati-2023-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Eduardo-Chacon-Corpus-Gelati-2023-600x899.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/> Eduardo Chacon | Corpus Gelati | 2023<\/p><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your images are captured entirely in-camera with manual focus and settings. Why is this approach important to you in today&#8217;s digital world?<\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I try to create my photographs in-camera in order to honor the moments that I see when I capture them.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a slower process, but it allows me to take the time to see the story, compose it, and then shoot it.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Besides B&amp;W conversion and basic levels adjustments, I rarely do anything else to my images.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Only when I envision a scene in a square format, or when there is something truly visually offensive in it, I proceed to crop it or retouch out the offending element of the image.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23481 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Eduardo-Chacon-Gazing-At-Dusk-2022.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Eduardo-Chacon-Gazing-At-Dusk-2022.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Eduardo-Chacon-Gazing-At-Dusk-2022-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Eduardo-Chacon-Gazing-At-Dusk-2022-677x1024.jpg 677w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Eduardo-Chacon-Gazing-At-Dusk-2022-768x1162.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Eduardo-Chacon-Gazing-At-Dusk-2022-1016x1536.jpg 1016w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Eduardo-Chacon-Gazing-At-Dusk-2022-600x907.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/> Eduardo Chacon | Gazing At Dusk | 2022<\/p><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How do you approach your subjects when capturing candid moments? Do you ever engage with them, or prefer to remain unnoticed?<\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I roam around looking for spontaneous visual situations, trying to read stories in the subject\u2019s faces and their body expressions.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since spontaneity and truthfulness to the moment are essential to my storytelling, previous to the capture, I never engage with anyone or anything I shoot.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23482 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Eduardo-Chacon-Hangover-Bros-2023.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Eduardo-Chacon-Hangover-Bros-2023.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Eduardo-Chacon-Hangover-Bros-2023-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Eduardo-Chacon-Hangover-Bros-2023-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Eduardo-Chacon-Hangover-Bros-2023-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Eduardo-Chacon-Hangover-Bros-2023-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/> Eduardo Chacon | Hangover Bros | 2023<\/p><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What role does black-and-white play in your visual storytelling?<\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I envision my stories in shades of grey only.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In my opinion, black and white has a unique quality that helps the story transcend the image.<\/p><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How do your travels\u2014both local and abroad\u2014influence your vision and photographic narrative?<\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Traveling definitely helps broadening one\u2019s views on different cultures but, the more I travel, the more I realize that, for as different as all world cultures may seem, fundamentally as individuals, we are all equal.<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24018 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Eduardo_Chacon_Please_Stay_2022.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Eduardo_Chacon_Please_Stay_2022.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Eduardo_Chacon_Please_Stay_2022-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Eduardo_Chacon_Please_Stay_2022-677x1024.jpg 677w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Eduardo_Chacon_Please_Stay_2022-768x1162.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Eduardo_Chacon_Please_Stay_2022-1016x1536.jpg 1016w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Eduardo_Chacon_Please_Stay_2022-600x907.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Eduardo Chacon | Please Stay | 2022<\/p><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What do you hope viewers take away from your photographs?<\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hopefully, my images will help the viewers realize that their most important connection is not their Internet connection, but instead, their human connection.<\/p><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Could you tell us about your upcoming exhibition at the Boca Museum and what visitors can expect from it?<\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The name of the exhibition is \u201cPostcards From Nowhere\u201d. It will open on November 19, 2025 until March 8, 2026 at the Boca Raton Museum Of Art.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a collection of intimate images taken in various locations around the world.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are expecting visitors of all ages, hoping that the older attendants can reminisce and get reacquainted with Humanist Photography, and the younger ones get introduced to the style.<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24019 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Eduardo_Chacon_Restin_Peace_2023.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Eduardo_Chacon_Restin_Peace_2023.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Eduardo_Chacon_Restin_Peace_2023-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Eduardo_Chacon_Restin_Peace_2023-677x1024.jpg 677w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Eduardo_Chacon_Restin_Peace_2023-768x1162.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Eduardo_Chacon_Restin_Peace_2023-1016x1536.jpg 1016w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Eduardo_Chacon_Restin_Peace_2023-600x907.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Eduardo Chacon | Restin&#8217; Peace | 2023<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Year of birth: 1960 Where do you live: South Florida Your education: New England School of Photography Describe your art in three words: Honest. 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