“If the women of flamenco introduced me to a lush vision of womanhood . . . it was the men of flamenco who took me into a surreal milieu,” the photographer Ruven Afandor wrote, in 2015. See more of the fierce men of flamenco:
My life with flamenco began when, as a child in Colombia, I would hear mythical tales about the gypsies, the, who for centuries had roamed the sun-drenched plains of southern Spain. Hearing of their chants and trancelike dances so inspired me that, over the years, and without ever seeing one flamenco performance, I created my own version of what these enchanting creatures looked like—how they would laugh, love, cry, sing, and dance—and how they embraced the endless arid landscape of Andalusia.
Later on, during my first year living in New York, when my career as a photographer was just beginning, I finally saw a real flamenco performance when María Benítez and her company came to the Joyce Theatre, in Chelsea. I was so taken by the song and dance, so hypnotized and seduced by the intense passion, that afterward, on an impulse, I waited for the legendaryoutside the theatre to ask her—beg her, if necessary—to allow me to photograph her.
A few days later, Monica called to say that she could not find the woman that I had so meticulously described to her. Instead, she found a man called Falete, who seemed to be a singer of note. I asked her to send me his photograph. I was perplexed when I saw it: an image of an ordinary overweight, even rotund, man, wearing a cap. I stared at the picture.
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