Category: landscape photography

[my transcendentalist ‘self’]

landscape photography, Photography, Street photography










[my transcendentalist individuality is a mere fragment of the universal “self”…my personality is a fragment of the personality of Gods and Goddesses and the Universe]
[…I am at the same time the wings of a seagull that flies at the mercy of the strong wind that blows over a beautiful beach on a sunny afternoon when the storm approaches]
[…and I am the leaves of grass that spread in a green pasture on a day of clear sky and inclement sun after a night of torrential and warm summer rains]
[…and I am also the boys and girls who walk happily every morning on their smooth paths to school carrying their bags with their notebooks and their book and pencil and eraser, eager to learn more and more]
[…and I am the weary men stumbling back home after a hard day’s work to eat dinner, kiss their wife and sons and daughters and be glad to be alive and healthy and strong]
[no intention to deny what I was yesterday, what I am today, what I will be tomorrow]
[…who is to contest?]











			


	


				
					


	

		
	

	
		
“MAKE IT NEW”

		
landscape photography, New topographics, Photography
	


	

		

“MAKE IT NEW” (Ezra Pound – 1885–1972)





This phrase, so to speak, refers to Ezra Pound’s modernist imperative in his eponymous 1934 collection of essays.





This ‘slogan’ urges the writer to create from the material of the artwork that is distinctly innovative.





The idea behind this ‘slogan’ is, for me, fully desirable in photography.
















			


	


				
					

				
					

				
					


	

		
	

	
		
[paths…]

		
landscape photography, Photography
	


	

		

[paths…]: [I like the roads, the paths … maybe I have a wandering soul…of not having a time to leave, nor to arrive … I like the straights, but I don’t dislike the curves … is the fate of those who come and go… of those who will arrive and leave… of those who like to see unknown places, but are not afraid of the unknown … of those who like the rocks and dust of the roads … of those who like the dirt, gravel, asphalt … and the surroundings of the roads, where everything passes very slowly like a movie of my life … all this teaches me to see, to look, to feel … to live]






			


	


				
					

				
					


	

		
	

	
		
[sale of my photobook RURAIS in Curitiba, PR-Brazil]

		
landscape photography, portraits, Street photography
	


	

		






Sale of my photobook RURAIS in Curitiba, PR-Brazil: at PORTFÓLIO SCHOOL OF PHOTOGRAPHY – Rua Alberto Folloni, 634 A – Centro Cívico. Physically and, soon, through the Portfólio bookstore website.





Venda de meu livro de fotografias RURAIS em Curitiba, PR-Brasil: na ESCOLA PORTFÓLIO de FOTOGRAFIA – Rua Alberto Folloni, 634 A – Centro Cívico. Fisicamente e, em breve, pelo site da Livraria da Portfólio.
















			


	


				
					

				
					


	

		
	

	
		
[place and memory in photography: the beauty of time; the passage of time]

		
landscape photography, New topographics
	


	

		






The great US photographer William Christenberry (1936-2016) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Christenberry) once said (https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/oct/03/myth) -manners-and-memory-review): “I don’t want my work to be thought of in terms of nostalgia. It’s a matter of place and sense of place. I’m not looking back with nostalgia for the past, but for the beauty of time and the passage of time.”





I echo the words of William Christenberry. These are the same reasons that motivate me to take photographs of buildings – many of them old and/or abandoned –, objects and landscapes from the interior of the state of São Paulo and other parts of the interior of Brazil.