Tag: landscape photography

{resilience}

Photography

from the project “ambiguities, dualities, parallel worlds: a small collection of diptychs”

diptych title: resilience

A RECORD OF THE DEAR FRIEND JUAN ESTEVES (in memoriam):

“Antonio Mozeto’s images of the interior of São Paulo are full of contrasts and reveal a Brazil that is rare to see in the harmony of the landscape’s graphics and in the topographies altered by man, a moment of a precious amalgamation”

Part of the text by Juan Esteves about the collective photography exhibition called TERRITORIES exhibited at Casa PEF Klink during the 2020 Paraty em Foco festival (Paraty, RJ).

[Merry Christmas, Happy New Year]

Photography

With this photo, which I really like, I would like to wish all my friends here on this social network and many who are also great friends in real life, a Christmas and a New Year full of peace and good things and that we can live together and/or get around the not so good things!


May we be happy, that is what matters most!


May roads like the one in the photo take us to many desired places and may we be happy on our journeys.

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.

{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.

Paths, dreams

Photography

Paths, dreams

I left my footprints on so many paths that have already been erased. So many paths have seen me go and come back. Who hugged me like a son hugs a father. Just like lovers know how to hug each other. Paths that I may never take again; that I will no longer see; that they will no longer see me. The paths have many memories. Memories have many paths.

My generous look of gratitude is what remains materialized in the photographic images I take of my walks. That look will also one day disappear; it will pass. Just like a candle that, when consumed, goes out, one day I will pass. Just like everything in life will fade away; it will pass. Photographic memories will also one day fade and also pass away.

Ephemeral memories of the paths. Ephemeral paths of memory. Ephemeral traces. Ephemeral photographic images.

Ephemeral lives.

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).