About jlcrucif / Jean-Luc Crucifix  

Don Perucho says:
"Realmente JLCrucif. tu trabajo, TODO, es excelente, quiero agradecerte como venezolano y merideño por amor, todo tu trabajo fotográfico. Haces de lo escénico, lo social, lo merideño, lo venezolano y latinoamericano todo un trabajo sociológico y de geografía social, digno de admiración y de ser imitado por propios. Tu trabajo lo haces desde una perspectiva de observador interesado y analítico de la realidad. Le otorgas a tu visión de lo nuestro, una belleza y realidad. amor y objetividad, Gracias por permitirnos disfrutar de él.
Tengo un vinculo de sangre lejano con el Rector Magnifico. pero lo que me ata a Mérida son 25 años de trabajo en sus campos, como ingeniero agrónomo, investigando para el desarrollo de la ganadería de altura y en Corpoandes. También como fotógrafo en Los Aleros, con Alexis, así que cuando expreso mi agradecimiento por tu trabajo lo hago conociendo mi terruño por adopción y el espíritu de observador comprometido que te anima. Conozco tu país de origen y Francia, su educación y su cultura, por lo que cuando te asocio a la cultura francofone, es por que conozco la objetividad y compromiso con la realidad que anima tu formación, manifiesta en todo tu trabajo. Saludos"

gcquinn says:
"To enter Jean-Luc's photo-stream is to join this gentle enthusiast on an adventure that spans thousands of miles of extraordinary territory--both geographic and personal. His photograph, “El Abismo,” captures the moment where the vast Amazon runs up against the Venezuelan plateau. It is the first photo Jean-Luc uploaded and it is the one that captured my eye and my allegiance –it is the whole story of this rugged country. His sweeping canvas takes in the birds and beautiful, fragrant hibiscus. He captures the Abuelitas – their silver heads bowed in deference – sometimes to their husbands, in their proud homes. He captures the goats, the chickens, the little dogs and the shops -- white-washed in white, blue, and red -- selling pan, and curios, and titled “Democracia.” He had a series of a religious procession, a ragged group of townspeople making their way through the mountainous country, which moved me tremendously. There is humor (the chicken checking out the cooking pot). And there is beauty “Danza,” his series of horses romping in the sunlit mountain chaparral, is as good as any art shot on Flickr. And in the background always the mountain, or the jungle. It takes me back to the summer before University, when I traveled to Colombia and the Magdelena River. I gave thousands of vaccinations to the children of the towns along the epic river's banks. They lived in the towns like those that Jean-Luc captures, with the caballero, resting Clint Eastwood-like foot against the white-washed wall among streets that zig and zag. His towns are so much like old Colorado (where the plains meet the Rocky Mountains), but with the white-washed blues, greens and reds of Venezuela. In Jean-Luc I have found the chronicler of Venezuela (with a side trip to Argentina and Bolivia) and of a moment in my own time when life opened up and changed me."