BAIXA CHIADO
Movements of Believing
Movements of Believing
Baixa and Chiado are two central neighborhoods of Lisbon, very different but very close.
They've always been very important for many reasons: in history they hosted the greatest commercial trades of the region
(fabrics, gold, jewelery, foods, spices), but also very spiritual places. A lot of churhes indeed were built in this area
from different people and cultures. Everything is divided by good and evil, light and dark, spirit and matter.
Everything has a primary structure which points upwards but anyway well-sticked to the ground, just like everything has his own fabric
which covers and repair, and with its threads creates a world of connections, a colorful blanket
that links everything and everyone with their stories.
We need the main structure that keeps us standing and functioning, but we need also the cover, which give us more than that,
it gives us a story, a meaning, a hand to hold. So the man is put in a bidimensional context: structure and cover, vertical and horiziontal,
and the images show this dicotomy.
The photobook features two photographic issues: the extreme use of perspective, often tense from bottom to top, communicates
a strong directional movement towars the focus. Instead, the use of a high contrast between foreground and background
in the depht of field, is a perfect technique to show the overlapping of many layers:
it's not direction, it's surface, which spreads in front of us.
They've always been very important for many reasons: in history they hosted the greatest commercial trades of the region
(fabrics, gold, jewelery, foods, spices), but also very spiritual places. A lot of churhes indeed were built in this area
from different people and cultures. Everything is divided by good and evil, light and dark, spirit and matter.
Everything has a primary structure which points upwards but anyway well-sticked to the ground, just like everything has his own fabric
which covers and repair, and with its threads creates a world of connections, a colorful blanket
that links everything and everyone with their stories.
We need the main structure that keeps us standing and functioning, but we need also the cover, which give us more than that,
it gives us a story, a meaning, a hand to hold. So the man is put in a bidimensional context: structure and cover, vertical and horiziontal,
and the images show this dicotomy.
The photobook features two photographic issues: the extreme use of perspective, often tense from bottom to top, communicates
a strong directional movement towars the focus. Instead, the use of a high contrast between foreground and background
in the depht of field, is a perfect technique to show the overlapping of many layers:
it's not direction, it's surface, which spreads in front of us.
