It is all about the light

I like to work in projects to produce series of photographs that have a meaning to me.

I spent my vacation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, more precisely in the town of Petrópolis, where my family has a house. Every morning and almost every afternoon I set out to walk on the hills of the neighborhood, which lies enmeshed with a remnant of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest.

I have done this for many years and this time around I decided to produce a small series of photographs portraying what I have observed, and I have named it “Passeios” (walks). Houses pop up and get quickly swallowed back by the forest when they are abandoned. Invariably, more houses get built than reclaimed, and in time, the forest becomes completely enmeshed with human elements.

Passeios begins with walking—slow, attentive movement through the Atlantic Forest. We alter the forest to move through it: we open clearings, define edges, impose direction. Yet the forest responds with patience. Roots rise, leaves gather, moisture settles in, and what was once deliberate begins to soften. The act of claiming becomes temporary.

The photographs linger in this in-between space, where intention meets entropy. Light falls on disturbed ground, vegetation leans back into human order, and boundaries blur. Walking is not conquest here, but conversation—one in which the forest always has the final word.

You can appreciate the final series through this link to my portfolio. A final version of the FEATURED PHOTOGRAPH can be purchased from my Pixels website through this link.

The thread connecting the images

When doing a series, it is important to consider what is the thread connecting images to one another. Those are the elements connecting “Passeios”.

• all images in this series were taken in the same neighborhood;
• all images have a human and a forest element; 
• Images are in color and processed with the same filter;
• The aspect ratio is 5X4;
• The concept behind it is the dance between occupying the forest and being reclaimed by it.

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