Ruven Afanador and 1,000 kisses

My two favorite colors - white and black - well presented in photography of Colombian-born artist Ruven Afanador. Ruven Afanador is one of today’s most respected and in-demand editorial and fashion photographers.
He is a longtime contributor to Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Elle, as well as The New York Times.

The resent work he's done for Nordstrom’s designer ad campaign is a play between romance and tragedy...

This one gives me butterflies...

His latest book, tribute to the women of flamenco entitled "Mil Besos" — 1,000 kisses, in Spanish — is perhaps his most powerful work which presets unique vision of the flamenco woman in Spain.

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Patty Griffin "Mil Besos"
(translated from Spanish)

I have found in your love my lost faith,

Now my life has a reason.

I don't know if it was the witchcraft of your eyes,

that said to your lips,

Steal his heart.

I know that in the thousand kisses

that I have given you on the mouth

my heart left me;

and they say that it's a sin

to love as I love you,

maybe they're right.

But what should everything they tell me

matter to me,

I won't forget you;

for if it's a sin to love you

I will continue sinning

I will never hide it.

I will continue loving you,

I will continue kissing you

until I drive you mad,

until you give me back

the heart that in kisses

I left in your mouth...