litttle steps

“little steps” is a collection of photographs from the streets of Brooklyn and Queens where each photograph is taken like a portrait, just the subjects were not people. The subjects were strictly speaking the soulless objects of the streets, like houses, trees, wires, graffiti, windows, empty lots, spaces under highways or bridges – everything that makes this urban space what it is – a combined product of human work, nature and the time passage that leaves decay behind. Still, in these scenes I could see the soul – houses looked like hominoid structures, when framed in a specific picture, and a dead bird on a graffiti seemed like a real giant dead bird. I took each of these photographs because I thought that there was a soul in the scene and that the beauty of it deserves to be depicted. It is like taking a little step each time in appreciating the uniqueness of the mundane and the ordinary in the urban space. Even more when I think that, in this fast changing urban environment it all may just be ephemeral, that tomorrow I will not find it again in the same place, in the same condition.