Unplaces

Urban landscape is changing. In times of generalized crisis, like nowadays, it changes for the worse. Abandonment, decay, decadence images. Human interventions in the cities or at the countryside, are also changing along with the rest of society. Time, intangible mental construct, effects on them as suddenly acquired a material form. Its results are more than visible, besides human intervention. Trying to capture and interpret these changes, using the photographic language, I was confronted with the medium of photography itself. Through different approaches and perspectives, I found myself looking outside the boundaries that the frame of my camera put in my eyes. The social boundaries of the creation or decay of the urban landscape were now quite apparent to be able to avoid them. Fumbling and imprinting these limits, with a conceptual approach, became the object of this work. Under these circumstances, the photographer needs to know, but mostly, to overcome his limitations. He must continually strive to see the world around him with a new perspective than it is accustomed. Using photography as a mean of overcoming and not just recording the social situations he is experiencing, his role changes in total and he becomes more of an active subject through the changes occurring in our times, than a spectator. In this way, he forms a more optimistic look for the whole world. Optimism that comes from his need to change this world. And photography as an art is the mean to attempt this change.