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.

[mirrors]

Photography

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]

[my day by edward hopper]

color photography, Street photography

My Day by Edward Hopper (1882-1967) (USA; painter, graphic artist and illustrator).
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All that was missing was a restaurant on the corner, with a few customers and a waiter, to better characterize the reality marked by Hopper’s loneliness as in his beautiful and world-famous painting Nighthawks (1942; 84.1×152.4cm).

photo: São Carlos, SP Brazil from the windshield of my car in the rain. 2022.

Amazon: THEY ARE DESTROYING YOU FOR MONEY

color photography

photo: Upper Solimões River – July 1991

IN HONOR OF THE ARBOR DAY (in Brasil): this tree in the photo, on the left bank of the Solimões River, is a NOTABLE TREE: it is on the nautical charts of the Amazon.

I had the good fortune and privilege of visiting various parts of the Brazilian Amazon Region for over 40 years as a professor and researcher in the environmental area (Environmental Chemistry and Biogeochemistry) at UFSCar (São Carlos SP campus).
I express my deep concern and sadness at the progressive destruction of the forest, lakes, rivers, paranás, and igapós that affects thousands of human beings who depend on them.
I wonder when we will have a solution to these almost countless problems, but I remain (sadly) skeptical of an EFFECTIVE SOLUTION in the short, medium, or long term.