From the book: The Walk. From Lisbon to Lisbon

“The act of documenting life on the street is charged with a dichotomy between the detachment and the connection it provides with the spaces and subjects with whom one shares the sidewalk. On the one hand, the photographer stays out of the scene, acknowledging his transient condition in the ow of the street. On the other hand, the photographic process demands a greater connection, forcing the observer to react by capturing the other in its idiosyncrasies, its abstraction, its routine...in its geometrical juxtaposition to the street, to the urban structures and to the neighbouring walker. For a brief moment, the unfathomable complexity of reality is molded into a frame and frozen in time…”…“Absent of any narrative construction, this body of work was born out of my experience of being resident in a city that one discovers and rediscovers at each step. To walk on journey having the same beginning and ending point; Lisbon as a single geographical entity, diverse in the specificity of its arteries, unique for the lives of those that ow through it without touching. To photograph, allowing the cosmopolitan life to take place, using the street as the stage for the stories that unfold. Stories that I’ve seen but never got to know.”