Author: Antonio Mozeto

I'm an amateur photographer based in the city of São Carlos, São Paulo state, SE Brazil. I used to make photographs since I was about 15-17 years old. My first camera was a Olympus Trip, an analogue camera. Many years after that I switched to several digital cameras. Presently I own a Nikon D500 with a small set of lenses and a Fujifilm X100T 23mm. A few years after my retirement as an university professor, after teaching Environmental Chemistry at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) for 45 years, I decided to invest money and time dedicating myself more seriously to photography. I´ve taken on-line courses as well as I´ve participated to various photography festival across Brazil. By far, my biggest interest is street photography. And in it, I'm interested in portraits, everyday street scenes and architecture.

INVITATION

Photography, portraits, rural workers

INVITATION

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I invite friends and interested parties in general to the opening session of my ninth photography exhibition called RURAIS, which is installed in the lobby of the Rectory of UFSCar (Rod. Washington Luis s/n, São Carlos-SP, Brazil) which will be held, at the same location, tomorrow, April 11, 2023, at 2:00 pm.

It will be a great pleasure to welcome you!

photo: rural worker on sugar cane plantations in the municipality of Descalvado (SP-Brazil)

[what is photography?]

Photography, photomontage, portraits

“Photography is a kind of alembic in which, in its successive transformation chambers (the eye, the camera, the darkroom(*)), the substance is extracted from the flow of images that crosses us every second and gives them meaning and presence. It is an essence of the look, slowly distilled” (Didier Brousse at https://loeildelaphotographie.com/fr/camera-obscura-bernard-descamps-essentiel/)

(*) and the lightroom

#blackandwhitephotography
#photomontage

{RURAIS (rural workers) – 9th Photo Exhibition}

Photography, rural workers, Uncategorized

As I previously announced two days ago, the 9th Photo Exhibition (the 1st took place at USP in São Carlos-SP-Brazil in 2019) of my project and book published in 2021 called RURAIS is already installed in the lobby of the Rectory of the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), Rod. Washington Luiz, s/n – Monjolinho, São Carlos, SP-Brazil where he will remain until April 24, 2023.

There are 21 black and white photographs of rural workers from different locations in 4 Brazilian states: São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Goiás and Mato Grosso do Sul that I took in the years 2018-2021.

I am immensely grateful to Mrs. Lourdes Moraes, Chief of Staff of the Rectory and Prof. Dr. Pedro Sérgio Fadini, ProRector of Research (ProPq) at UFSCar for the invitation to set up this exhibition, for the warm welcome and for making this wonderful space available at the Rectory.
Thanking Mrs. Lourdes and Prof. Pedro, I am also respectfully thanking all the senior management at UFSCar in São Carlos, a house that was my home for 45 years.

I would be more than happy with the visit of the entire UFSCar community as well as other visitors from the cities of São Carlos and the region!

Visitation will take place from Monday to Friday from 08:00 to 19:00.

In due course, we will disclose the date and time of an opening act for the exhibition and a date/time of a possible visit guided by me.

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PHOTO: rural workers returning to their homes after a hard day’s work. Rural area of the municipality of São João Batista do Glória (MG-Brasil). 2018.