this diptych: hauntings.
For me, photography has to raise more questions than it answers; it has to create more tension than it dissuades tension; it has to be a poem of a few direct lines rather than a thousand-page novel.
series 1+1=3
[in the darkness of the night]
from my book RURAIS (rural workers) (Ed. Origem. São Paulo Brazil 2020)
IN TIME: the photographer of French origin, Anouk Krantz (@anoukmassonkrantz – on Instagram), but living in the USA, recently published a fabulous book (my dream book) called: AMERICAN COWBOYS.
“The simple men and women of the countryside who live from the land and for the land on their small rural properties and many others who shed their sweat daily in labor on other people’s properties and businesses are those who know the true value of the land, love the land , love their places. They are the authentic, anonymous and invisible heroes and heroines and, truly, the strong of this country”
Photography book by Antonio Mozeto. ‘Rural’. Editora Origem (Publisher). São Paulo Brazil. 126pp. 2021
of the project: My Pittoresca Amazon
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).
Paraty Photography Festival (RJ-Brazil) (PEF2023)
Pre-selected photo in the PEF2023 in the call for ‘essay’ (project “Hauntings”; series of 10 photographs) and single photo (project “Time”).
Many thanks to the PEF2023 judging committee.
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INVITATION
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I invite friends and interested parties in general to the opening session of my ninth photography exhibition called RURAIS, which is installed in the lobby of the Rectory of UFSCar (Rod. Washington Luis s/n, São Carlos-SP, Brazil) which will be held, at the same location, tomorrow, April 11, 2023, at 2:00 pm.
It will be a great pleasure to welcome you!
photo: rural worker on sugar cane plantations in the municipality of Descalvado (SP-Brazil)
These two photographs belong to my project in which, for many years, I try to highlight the characteristics of a Brazil far from the big cities where very humble people live in places of great simplicity and peace: I call this BRAZIL “Profound Brazil”.
Antonio Mozeto 