Tag: black and white photography

My Pittoresca Amazon

Photography

of the project: My Pittoresca Amazon

(a project that is becoming an exhibition already scheduled for March/2024 in Ouro Preto, MG-Brazil and perhaps a book as well)

I have a deep identification with the Brazilian Amazon, which I have visited many times for environmental work in my almost 50 years as a professor/researcher at UFSCar.
The two photos presented here are a small but representative sample of my adventures in the region.
The name of the series was inspired by the term picturesque, which is an aesthetic concept that refers to the subjective impressions triggered by the contemplation of a landscape scene in relation to painting. It emerged as an intermediary between the ideas of the sublime and the beautiful, during the development of Romanticism (late 18th century/early 19th century). The word derives from the Italian pittoresco, “resembling or made like a painting” (Wikipedia).

photobook ‘hauntings’

Photography

In the press of my photobook HAUNTINGS (ASSOMBRAÇÕES) at Gráfica Cinelândia, São Paulo, SP (Brasil) (on the October 18th/2023).

The book has the prestigious and helpful curation of Roberto Cecato (FotoWeb Academy, São Paulo, SP, Brasil) to whom I am very grateful for the curation and for having prefaced the book.
Photographs being materialized and, perhaps, immortalized!

Happy to see the start of printing work.

[new photography book on the way]

Photography, photomontage

Friends: Here’s the dummy of my book ‘hauntings’ with 51 photographs, 88 pages (mostly in B&W) which will have its final printing perhaps this October and its launch and sales afterwards.
The project was curated by Roberto Cecato (FotoWeb Academy, São Paulo, SP) to whom I am very grateful for the true partnership. The book is brilliantly prefaced by this curator.

Happy to be in this final stage of another project materialized in a book.

from the series: [by the wayside]

Photography, Street photography

I’ve always been very curious and have a relationship with paths…not only with the paths themselves, but also with ‘the edges of the paths’…it’s this story of the flâneur, the observer…and the edges of the paths reveal a lot of the paths themselves… this photo is one of those that I have collected from my collection, but it is a theme that I continue to photograph whenever I can.

{(a little) beyond architecture}

Photography

I always thought that my photos supposedly classified as ARCHITECTURE weren’t really ARCHITECTURE… essentially, I didn’t like them thinking they were ARCHITECTURE… and then I tentatively decided to call this exercise (wandering through the collection of several hundred photos) BEYOND ARCHITECTURE where I pair photos (as if on paired pages of an open book) that are actually of architecture while others that are not that show leading lines, shapes, volumes, marked contrasts between shadows and light, etc…