CYBELE- VIDEO ARTIST FROM SPAIN

Rare people are hard to find on this planet. I am honored to introduce you to Cybele. She lives in Madrid, Spain and she has just completed an amazing YouTube tribute to Alfred Cheney Johnston.

I have only known Cybele a short time...sending her historical information and visuals for her ACJ video, but during this time, I have come to realize the full nature of her tremendous committment to photography, born from a great love for other people. Over the past year, she has created an absolutely remarkable series of YouTube videos for her YouTube channel MASTERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY.

Cybele prefers to remain anonymous. She says: " .. i don't belong to this world of Photography, i mean, i'm not a professional photographer, just a photographer by heart whenever i can..as (like) thousands (of) persons in the world.... i'm not a collector or something similar... i'm just a woman that loves photography (probably not more that any other person..).. and I love the knowledge.... any kind of knowledge....when i see a photo, specially by a Master of Photography i always like to know more on him/her, on their lives, on their circumstances, on why they began to photograph... these stories, their lives, together with the Mastery, with the beauty, or touching photography, makes a cocktail for me hard to resist... "

Cybele's photography channel is rated # 52 in Spain on YouTube, with over 2,200 subscribers. Of her subscribers, she writes: "... some of them (are) professional photographers.. galleries.. curators... writers.. anonyms... people aged 18 .. people aged 70.. no matter the age if you love photography.. beginners in photography.. housewifes, students, musicians... of all countries.. of all races...all social classes... having a common hobby... Photography... and wishing to know more..."

She created her first video about Roy DeCarava because she couldn't find him on YouTube, and she created her most recent on ACJ because a man wrote her and asked her to. Her videos are non-profit and her intent is that they be shared with people around the globe. She thinks of them: "...as a parenthesis in the everyday life..with the clock stopped... in this strange world....as conversations over coffee at a cafe... in some way, i open my heart with the videos.. while i virtually hold in my hands the photographs of the Masters, placing them in the videos..And i love the idea of having the Masters together.."

She wants viewers to know: "there's a Lover of Photography, that is making just a humble tribute to the great Masters.. they are the important subject here... as i say in my channel "In this channel, the Masters of Photography take their place in front of the camera".... not Cybele...