Regards from Barcelona

The Association of Photographers' Student Awards have been announced with Jordi Ruiz Cirera from London College of Communications named as the 2012 Student Photographer of the Year

Ruiz Cirera's series of portraits of members of the Mennonite communities in Eastern Bolivia won him the top prize. The Mennonites emigrated to Bolivia in the 50s hoping to be able to preserve their traditional lifestyle away from the trappings of the 20th century. "This series of portraits intends to showcase the relations and the family roles within the Mennonite community, as well as their deep isolation from contemporary society," says Ruiz Cirera.

Ruiz Cirera originally hails from Barcelona but graduated from the MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at LCC last year. He spent a year working on the Mennonite project, a second series from which (one shown below) won him a Merit at the AOP Student Awards.

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Brutalist architecture II

L’Architecture, c’est, avec des matieres bruts, établir des rapports émouvantes. Le Corbusier, Vers une Architecture. 

24-28, Rue du Commandant René Mouchotte, Montparnasse, Paris

Bijlmermeer, Amsterdam. 

Bratislava- Commemorates the construction of the link road and associated bridges/underpasses

Durham University

Freeway Park, Seattle

Palace of Concerts and Sports.  Vilnius, Lithuania, 1971

The Grade II listed Trellick Tower as seen from Goldborne Road in West London. It was designed in the "Brutalist" style by Ernő Goldfinger and completed in 1972.

The New Museums Site, University of Cambridge. Arup Associates 1966-1974

Wotruba Church, Vienna. 

Best Gin Tonic Ever

Donde?

Béns d'Avall

En el restaurante de Sóller (Mallorca) de Béns d'Avall capitaneado por Benet Vicens, se puede encontrar está maravilla para deleitar las papilas gustativas más exigentes. 

Es un granizado de GinTonic con mousse de chocolate blanco acompañado por un canutillo de ensaimada de cabello de ángel, mandarina y fresas. 

Los GinTonics se han puesto de moda, Peter O'Toole, Richar Burton o Winston Churchill son las caras conocidas de este sabroso alcohol, invento holandés con fines medicinales, realizado con bayas de enebro.

Curioso el aumento de la producción, y la gran cantidad de nuevas marcas de Ginebra que van saliendo cada día con mayores sabores cítricos, frutales y secos. 

Destaca sobre el resto de los países, el descomunal consumo de GinTonics en España, y es que las campañas publicitarias donde son más efectivas, es en este país, que cuenta con una población enorme con cara de caja tonta. 

Mis ginebras favoritas:  

Para después de una comida: Fifty Pounds, sola, con hielo y piel de limón. 

Para tomar una copa con los amigos: Hendrick's, con fever-tree, copa de balón con hielo y dicen que dos rodajas de pepino, yo siempre lo pido con 4 o 5 rodajitas. 

Páginas a tener en cuenta si eres un amante de la Ginebra:

The Gin Blog

Rose & Cucumber

Art of Drink