Category: people

  • Meet Ludwig Rondón – the file style

    Meet Ludwig Rondón – the file style

    by Claudia Falcão

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    A not one composition might be fairly complex in its structure. Several arrangements and notes play an essential role in each performance. The tune identified can be as mellow and as crispy depending on the strings attached. When having the aptitude of learning by ear, all chords and pitches fit creatively, but it is all a learning process. That is the ethos of Ludwig Rondon in his path to becoming a reputable classical guitarist and educator.

    The teenage Ludwig Rondón born in Curaçao moved to the Netherlands in 1986 to study architecture but little did he know he had that musician sparkle hidden that later turned into a passion.

    As an introduction about himself, Ludwig Rondón starts the conversation with his untypical story as he says: “My story is not typical…I got my first guitar when I was fifteen years old. I just played as a hobby!”

    How did you…

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  • Repost: “Woven in true colours” – The File Style

    written by Sandra Porto

    I am delighted to meet the work of the photographer Janssem Cardoso, full of diversity, identity and humanity.
    Read more about his ‘Other Colours’ project and his experience during the lockdown, through Sandra Porto’s article for The File Style.

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    By Sandra Porto

    Unmasked humanity creates unique tapestry in Janssem Cardoso’s photography.

    Love, compassion and tolerance are often quoted as good qualities to possess and to live a good life; but the Brazilian photographer and videographer has gone beyond personal traits to incorporate them into the very fabric of his work.

    Among his short movies and exquisite photography, a common thread of humanity, vulnerability and warmth links his subjects with incredible results, which are always touching and simultaneously provoking.

    Mastering imagery in such a powerful way, you’d be forgiven to think he’d done nothing else apart from photography. But his journey didn’t necessarily start behind the lens: “I was studying Graphic Design at university and photography was one of the subjects – I just fell in love with it.” From there, he got a job at an animation studio where he was placed in a fast lane leading to the…

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