For this project, I have created a series of non-linear narratives depicting emotions that emerged from those memories, often biased, reverberating from a reverie of a life I barely recall.
It’s about the nuanced interplay between memory and emotion, and how our past experiences shape our present.
The result is a visual analises of the ephemeral nature of nostalgia in the context of puzzle-like fragments that are woven together, and how the nuanced interplay between memory, emotion and perception emerges, shaping an individual’s experience of the world.
The Cartography of The Road
Questioning the power of discomfort
Most paths are worth doing. Even the ones that, in the end, make us walk back. This series captures our shared journeys through a collection of medium format analog photographs, deliberately used to slowdown the creative process, mirroring the contemplative nature of a long, meandering drive. These empty roads become metaphors for life’s paths, inviting viewers to pause and reflect on their own journeys.
The images, devoid of human presence yet heavy with human implication, create a visual discourse on absence and potential. They challenge us to reconsider our relationship with time, progress, and the spaces we inhabit. By focusing on the road itself – a symbol of both connection and separation – the project examines the tension between our desire for speed and efficiency and our need for introspection and meaningful experience.
Sample Gallery
Sample Gallery
Icebergs
Understanding the world by travelling inward
Icebergs are large freshwater bodies that have broken off a glacier and have gone floating in the open sea. Some people are like Icebergs. They’re my favourite kind of people.
This is an ongoing photographic series that looks into a parallel world, one that contrasts with the our dopamine-driven society we encounter every day. One that resists the value of novelty, excitement and interaction. One that is not overwhelmed with stimuli, information, and expectations, urging us to engage, speak up, and network. Its inhabitants want to belong without joining in, and explore the world, by travelling inward. They have realised, from a young age, that one is not strange because he looks different. The ones who are different in challenging ways, try to look as normal as possible.
The result is a photographic project that invites the audience to look inward, hoping that it inspires them to discover and appreciate their inner landscapes and the potential they hold.
All Islands Are Mountains
Questioning the power of stillness
We live in the age of multi-tabs, binge-watching, and immediatism. We have instant coffee, instant messaging, expressways, and speedy boarding. There is something to be said about the questions that can arise from the discomfort of a long drive, and I’m afraid that today, with all the shortcuts that allow us to travel and arrive faster than ever, we no longer have the time to understand what we are slowly losing along the way. I faced this while observing the contrasts of the gradually evolving Portuguese landscape, where natural and constructed spaces are progressively being transformed by a new Europe attempting to keep up with modern life. A dichotomy most evident in the rural areas where, for instance, at the base of the new brutalist express-ways whose speed prevented population exodus, we find old roads that wind around the same landscape slowly and sinuously, keeping tradition in.
Knowing that I could be facing a perspective bias resulting from the correlation between depth perception and the speed we travel through time, I decided to slow down and equipped with a medium-format analogue camera, wander and wonder about the power of stillness and boredom.
The result is a project that invites the audience to slow down and reflect on the human condition and the impact of speed and progress on our environment and humanity.
Sample Gallery
Previous published essays and projects:
Folk Tales
Under a Storm
Inland Iceland
Inland Morocco
Inland Madeira
Perspectiva e circunstância
O Natal é um estacionamento vazio
Perseids
Project Paperclip
