I’m (almost) absolutely sure you won’t believe it: I never seek to mimic/emulate (or using a uglier word in this case: imitate, copy) photographs of great masters (of all of us photographers, I believe), but this ghost (if it’s really a ghost he’s a good one) chases me….even though, premeditatedly (this is another thing IContinue reading “Can we mimic/emulate/imitate/copy (or just try to) great masters in photography? I guess so…”
Category Archives: landscape photograohy
{why landscape photography enchants me}
I wonder: why black and white landscape photography continues to entertain me, to enchant me over the years?…I think it’s for many reasons…but I wouldn’t dare mention the main one…only I know that I am more enchanted with each passing day that I photograph landscapes like the ones I share now…I hope you like it…leaveContinue reading “{why landscape photography enchants me}”
[.D.E.M.O.L.I.T.I.O.N.]
[.D.E.M.O.L.I.T.I.O.N.] {interior of são paulo state, brazil} {abandoned sugar and ethanol plant}
[trees]
trees: if you don’t have them how to know them?
Me and Mr. Eggleston (and our tricycles)
I can swear and, I believe, you are capable of not believing that in 2018 in Paranapiacaba (SP-Brazil) I took this photograph of the top of the diptych I was already aware of this iconic photo by William Eggleston (which is mentioned in the literature as “Untitled, Tricycle and Memphis, 1970”), but I did notContinue reading “Me and Mr. Eggleston (and our tricycles)”
Paths and crossings
In the middle of the path there was a stone there was a stone in the middle of the path had a stone in the middle of the path there was a stone. I will never forget this event in the life of my retinas so tired. I’ll never forget that in the middle ofContinue reading “Paths and crossings”
THE MEMORY OF THE PATHWAYS AND THE PATHWAYS OF MEMORY.
The paths have many memories and the memory has many paths.I think this is true because I have many good memories of the paths that I have gone through in my life and my memory goes through several paths. My memories of these places, people and objects that were part of my imagination, of myContinue reading “THE MEMORY OF THE PATHWAYS AND THE PATHWAYS OF MEMORY.”
Pandemic treatment: phototherapy
Phototherapy – I am not talking about any health treatment against any desease here. Those treatments that consist of the use of special lights widely used in newborns who are born with jaundice (yellowish tone on the skin), but which can also be useful to combat wrinkles and spots on the skin, in addition toContinue reading “Pandemic treatment: phototherapy”
Small churches in Brazil
This polyptych consists of photographs of 25 small catholic churches in Brazil, in the southeast of Brazil. It is part of my on going project on “new topographics, topological and typological” in Brazil.
Small churches in the interior of the state of são paulo-brazil
This polyptych consists of photographs of ten small churches in the interior of the State of São Paulo, in the southeast of Brazil. It is part of my project on “new topographics in the interior of the state of são paulo-brazil”.
[vernacular landscapes]: [new topographics from the interior of the state of são paulo-brazil]
According to the writer and curator LUISA DUARTE (Rio Branco, Miguel – Crossword puzzles, dreamed, stolen, used, bled. São Paulo. IMS. 2020) and, according to the benjaminian conception (Walter Benjamin – essayist, literary critic, German Jewish translator, philosopher and sociologist; 1892-1940) on the temporality of works of art “a work of art does not haveContinue reading “[vernacular landscapes]: [new topographics from the interior of the state of são paulo-brazil]”
A vernacular elegy to the countryside
“The landscape is not, in essence, made to look at, but the insertion of man in the world, the place of a struggle for life, a manifestation of his being with others, the basis of his social being”. (Dardel, E., 2011. Man and the earth: nature and geographical reality. Translation Werther Holzer. São Paulo, SP.Continue reading “A vernacular elegy to the countryside”
