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.

{ambiguities, dualities, parallel worlds}

Photography

{ambiguities, dualities, parallel worlds}

Photography

{ambiguities, dualities, parallel worlds – a small collection of diptychs}

Note: two pairs of juxtaposed pages from a future book of my photographs.

{signage} (roadside)

color photography

{signage} (roadside) R.N. 12, northeast Argentina

{nube compañera}

Photography

[nube compañera]

ruta nacional 12 – corrientes, argentina

{in the clouds}

Photography

Ambiguities, dualities, parallel worlds – a small collection of diptychs.

this diptych: city in the clouds

[project 1+1=3; continuum of diptychs]

Photography

this diptych: hauntings.

For me, photography has to raise more questions than it answers; it has to create more tension than it dissuades tension; it has to be a poem of a few direct lines rather than a thousand-page novel.

[my day by edward hopper]

color photography, Street photography

My Day by Edward Hopper (1882-1967) (USA; painter, graphic artist and illustrator).
……………………………………………

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.

project: 1+1=3 (diptyches)

monochrome photography, Photography

Diptych title: “so they don’t say I didn’t talk about the flowers”

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.