Category: color photography

[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.

[red poppy of palestine]

color photography, photomontage

Think of the children of Palestine, living orphans
Born orphans, with no future and nothing
Others massacred by bloodthirsty drones and missiles,
Murdered without mercy
From hunger, thirst and bullets
Think of your decapitated limbs
Their broken hearts
Wounds like red poppies
Dried, faded in a dry vase, on a table in a corner of the house
Broken
On some corner that no longer exists
Broken

Don’t forget the red poppy
From the red poppy of Palestine
The same color as spilled blood
Never forget the dried, faded red poppy
Stained with blood
Abandoned
No petals, no red
With nothing

{reconstructing Nineteen Eighty-Four}

color photography, photomontage

Reconstructing Michael Radford’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four” (1984) from George Orwell’s glorious book of the same name (1948).

The photomontages are of scenes from the film that I have just re-watched for the ‘n’th time and I photographed the TV screen that overlaps photos of me of Usina São Carlos (sugar and alcohol plant) (Jaboticabal SP Brazil) during the period when it was being demolished already 2-3 years ago.

{Amazon Hylea}

color photography

The Amazon Hyleia, as defined by Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1659).
Photo of a lake on the banks of the Rio Negro taken in 1991.
This image will appear in my exhibition ‘MINHA PITTORESCA AMAZÔNIA’ at the UFOP Arts and Convention Center in Tiradentes, MG, from March 7-11, 2024.

You are more than invited!!!

P.S.: TIP – this image can be (much) better appreciated in its entirety in full screen and horizontally.

[beauty of nature]

color photography, nature

I have a true adoration for Japanese art paintings because of their beauty and delicacy.
Every year, in the spring, when the first rains occur and the trees sprout again, I try to take photographs of this vegetation because, in my eyes, many of these trees – in the images that remain in my eyes and mind – bear a great resemblance to the paintings of Japanese art.
This photo that I show today is one of the (many) attempts that I have made and that, in my eyes and mind, highlights some similarity with the paintings of Japanese art.
Hope you like it!