{tree trunks}
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.
{resilience}
{three windows}
{three windows}
A long-abandoned old house in Cássia (Minas Gerais – Brazil).
I was happy to discover it and bring it back to life in my photo (night photo), which changed my night for the better.
I liked the title that Prof. Guilherme Ghisoni (Labfotofilo – Philosophy of Photography Research Laboratory, FAFIL-UFG, Goiás, Brazil) gave to this photo, also published on my Instagram: THE SUM OF TIMES. I found the title inspiring and it fits the photo perfectly.
This scene values the aesthetics of imperfection, that is, the beauty of imperfections, thus aligning itself with the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi, which sees value in aging and the transience of things. Therefore, the title given, “The Sum of Times”, is very expressive, in my opinion, because it reinforces the idea that the present is built from the layers (imperfect, but beautiful) left by the past.
[shadows]
[shadows]
from the project “ambiguities, dualities, parallel worlds: a small collection of diptychs”
{resilience}
from the project “ambiguities, dualities, parallel worlds: a small collection of diptychs”
diptych title: resilience
A RECORD OF THE DEAR FRIEND JUAN ESTEVES (in memoriam):
“Antonio Mozeto’s images of the interior of São Paulo are full of contrasts and reveal a Brazil that is rare to see in the harmony of the landscape’s graphics and in the topographies altered by man, a moment of a precious amalgamation”
Part of the text by Juan Esteves about the collective photography exhibition called TERRITORIES exhibited at Casa PEF Klink during the 2020 Paraty em Foco festival (Paraty, RJ).
[happy new year]
From the preface I wrote for my intended future book on the art of photography, now called “ambiguities, dualities, parallel worlds – a small collection of diptychs”, I extracted this small excerpt that says:
————-“In my diptychs I give new meaning to my photography and I have the clear feeling that I give new meaning to myself: my dreams and failures; my life”—————
Having said this and republishing one of my favorite diptychs from 2024, I would like to wish my friends a truly new year, with much peace, with renewed hope for a world without the horrors of war and hunger.
{merry christmas}
Think of the children of Palestine, living orphans
Others massacred by bloodthirsty drones and missiles,
Murdered without mercy
By hunger, thirst and bullets
Think of their decapitated limbs
Their hearts torn apart
Wounded, despised, like red poppies
Dried in a vase without water on a table
In a corner of some house
That no longer exists
Also torn apart
However, do not forget the red poppy
The red poppy of Palestine
Stained, dirty with blood
The same color as the blood spilled today
The dried, dehydrated red poppy
That will be justly defied
(Merry Christmas…to rethink Christmas, for a more just world, without wars and without hunger)
[Merry Christmas, Happy New Year]
With this photo, which I really like, I would like to wish all my friends here on this social network and many who are also great friends in real life, a Christmas and a New Year full of peace and good things and that we can live together and/or get around the not so good things!
May we be happy, that is what matters most!
May roads like the one in the photo take us to many desired places and may we be happy on our journeys.
{loneliness}
[loneliness]
from the project: ambiguities, dualities, parallel worlds – a small collection of diptychs
[bad dreams]
[bad dreams]
from the project: ambiguities, dualities, parallel worlds – a small collection of diptychs
[mirrors]
mirrors
(from the project “ambiguities, dualities, parallel worlds”)
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[photo of direita street in tiradentes, mg, brazil from march 2017]
[i truly worship this street with its houses with many doors and windows and its many stones]
[as corny as it may seem, i really liked this mirror image of this diptych]
[the ‘raw’ file was processed in lightroom in order to obtain a result that i called, at the time, ‘stylized’]
[i don’t know what i meant anymore after 7 years]
“To keep something is to look at it, to stare at it, to gaze at it for the sake of
admiring it, that is, to illuminate it or to be illuminated by it”
[antonio cícero. guardar: poemas selecionados. rio de janeiro, brasil: record. 1996]
{ambiguities, dualities, parallel worlds}
{ambiguities, dualities, parallel worlds}
a small collection of diptychs
Antonio Mozeto 