More Pictures about Dark Cities and Vacant Buildings 1988-1996

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More Pictures about Dark Cities and Vacant Buildings 1988-1996

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PICTURES ABOUT DARK CITIES

AND VACANT BUILDINGS é uma obra única na fotografia portuguesa. Uma roadtrip pela vida do autor ao encontro de lugares, pes- soas e estados de espirito, que se prolonga durante três décadas.

A série tem inicio no final dos anos oitenta, no que parece corresponder aos primeiros passos do autor, nao muito conseguidos, na arte fotografica, e é abandonada em meados da segunda década do novo milénio. Nessa época, tanto quanto nos é desvendado, o autor teraá abandonado o uso preferencial do preto e branco, iniciando um novo e prometedor ciclo a cores, cujo resultado iremos possivelmente conhecer dentro de alguns anos. Ainda que as imagens apresentadas pudessem ser organi- zadas de forma anacrónica, por temas, locais ou estados de espirito, o autor optou por realçar o caráter diarístico da sua obra, apresentando-as de forma cronológica, onde cada capitulo ou subsérie corresponde a um ciclo temporal, evento ou estado de espirito.

Enquanto das imagens iniciais transparece uma von- tade de descoberta e um descaramento fotografico juvenil, no despontar do novo milénio sobressai um crescente desencanto, que acompanha em muitos momentos a degradação politica e economica do pais, bem patente nas imagens cor- respondentes aos anos de intervenção da Troika, que o autor tao bem resumiu de forma mais directa na sua série ÀA Rasca. Os peroodos mais produtivos e arrojados, que se registam a partir de 2006, correspondem possivelmente ao periodo de descoberta e participação no colelectivo Fotoalternativa. net, que parece ter exercido forte influencia na abordagem do autor.

More Pictures about Dark Cities and Vacant Buildings constitui um diário visual intimo e pessoal que agora se desvenda, mas que ainda guarda na penumbra e na escuridão das suas imagens o anonimato prezado Pablo Miralles ------------

MORE PICTURES ABOUT DARK CITIES AND VACANT BUILDINGS is a unique work in Portuguese photography. A roadtrip through the author’s life, meeting places, people and states of mind, which lasts for three decades. The series begins in the late eighties, in what seems to correspond to the author’s first steps, not very successful, in photographic art, and is abandoned in the middle of the second decade of the new millennium. At that time, as far as is revealed to us, the author will have abandoned the preferential use of black and white, starting a new and promising cycle in color, the result of which we will possibly know in a few years.

Although the images presented could be organized in an anachronistic way, by themes, places or moods, the author

chose to emphasize the diary character of his work, presenting them in a chronological way, where each chapter or subseries corresponds to a time cycle. , event or state of mind.

While the initial images show a desire of discover and a youthful photo graphic impudence, at the dawn of the new millennium a growing disenchantment emerges, which often accompanies the political and economic deg- radation of the country, clearly evident in the images corresponding to the years of intervention by the Troika, that the author summed up most directly in his series À Rasca. The most productive and daring periods, which are registered after 2006, possibly correspond to the period of discovery and participation in the Fotoalternativa.net collective, which seems to have exerted a strong influence on the author’s approach to photography.

More Pictures about Dark Cities and Vacant Buildings is an intimate and personal visual diary that now unfolds, but which still preserves the dear anonymity in the twilight and darkness of its images.

Pablo Miralles

4/5-Lisboa; 6-Lisboa, ,8-Luis, 9-Paula, 10-Luis, 11-Paula, 12/13 Lake District, 14/15-Lake District, 16/17-Preston,18-Sao, 19/20-Lake District, 20/21-Blackpool, 23-Luis/ Preston, 24/25-Lisboa, 26/27-Lisboa, 28/29-Lisboa, 30/31-Seixal, 32/33-Seixal,34/35-Catarina

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