LensFlare35 - Interview with Aggie Villanueva, the Grandma Moses of the American Southwest
LensFlare 35 is a weekly show brought to you by Dave Warner. In this week’s episode, Dave interviews Canon Photographer Aggie Villanueva. Aggie lived in rural New Mexico’s Madrid/Cerillos area without water, electricity or plumbing, hauling water by hand, the only light the kerosene lamp, with no phones or cell phone. She spent those years roaming the mountains, sometimes sleeping on the ground under the vast, crystal expanse of southwestern skies; sometimes in her van.
In 2001 she moved to an even more remote sector, into a tiny log cabin in the foothill forests of the San Pedro Wilderness area, getting snowed in for most of every winter, but with the luxury of “water pouring right out the wall when she turned the knob.”
In this episode, Aggie talks about her nickname and background, why she decided to be so remote and what every photographer can learn from that experience (one that is clearly NOT for every photographer), things she learned from that isolation, her work, Aggie Logic, her virtual photo shoots, where her work is being shown, and how she uses social media to promote it.
To listen to the full podcast interview, click on the ‘podcast’ link below. You can also subscribe to it via iTunes.
In addition to the podcast, we created a special video of Aggie’s images with her explanation of each that opens in a popup window. To view the video in the post, just scroll down to the ‘click, watch and listen’ text and launch the player.
