Strike a pose
Loco's Shit Party is a bit of an Ibiza workers' tradition, having run for 11 years now every August near San Antonio. In the last few years, a reunion party has been held in London for workers to dance off the winter and post-Ibizan blues and do a spot of reminiscing.
While I didn't make it out to Ibiza in 2010, I wandered down to the reunion to catch up with some old faces, and went armed with the camera. During the course of the night I got chatting to the subject of this photo - don't ask me her name; I seem to remember that she was very cagey about it... Or maybe I've just forgotten but my brain's come up with an elaborate story so I don't feel so helplessly forgetful.
Anyway, I happen to like this photo because, apart from hitting Potatoshop's auto-contrast button, it hasn't been touched at all; I haven't whitened her teeth or eyes, smoothed out her skin, removed a single blemish, or altered the photo in any of the myriad other ways you might find "enhancing" the photos a photographer's portfolio.
Not - I should emphasise - that judgement played any part in getting this photo. I think I was probably doing my usual trick of not-even-looking-through-the-viewfinder as I took it, so any apparent technical ability in this pic was all thanks to luck.
I wonder where this girl is now, and - for that matter - who she is...?
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