são

São Paulo is a huge city. Many times its inhabitants don’t have a face, lost in the crowd that walks between work, home and few moments of fun. Its architecture is also misshapen in many moments, with buildings, stiles and heights overlapping, turning the biggest Brazilian city into chaos for eyes not used to the sight. In downtown São Paulo is possible to see the origins of this uncontrolled growth, with big sets of buildings intertwined. The masses of people are also present downtown, coming to work, running for lunch, in the marathon back home. There the city and its inhabitants are nearer, in a more profound symbiosis than usual. são is a series of dyptichs that explores the relation between what’s built and the people that live and work in downtown São Paulo. The duos are always divided equally between buildings and men, with compositions that unite the two images by parallels of color or form. In the images of são the built and the humane fill the frame completely. There’s no breathing room, no sky. São Paulo can create that feeling in its visitors, with high buildings, near each other, practically conjoined. The masses of people that walk fast trough the central streets can also drag you, leaving immersed in a sea of people. são seeks for order in this chaos, looking for patterns in the disorder and uniting images that give the tone of the life in downtown São Paulo. são is a series from the streets, from observation, that seeks to externalize the life of people immersed in the heart of one of the most populated cities in the world.