Tramonto (2023)
Tyrrhenian Sea

Saltamontes (2023)
Vézelay

Opway (2019)
Maputo

Vila Algarve (2019)
Maputo

Colonial Fruit (2022)
Napoli

Chiesa (2023)
Palermo

Untitled (2018)
Espinho

Convitto (2022)
Napoli

Windows (2023)
Palermo

Praça dos Trabalhadores (2019)
Maputo

Solar (2018)
Porto

Salita (2022)
Napoli

La Poesia (2022)
Napoli

A series of digital photographs stemming from a specific way of looking at the urban environment. In the Anthropocene we are always surrounded by our past, which naturally influences the present. These remnants often contain historical ideas, cultural heritages from generations or maybe even civilizations before us. You can see it as a sort of geology of society. With my camera I try to loosely depict these different layers in a single image, to not forget how the time passes and things change — some too slowly, others too swiftly.

(More descriptions down below.)

Timelines

2018 – 2023

Tramonto — a man photographing the sunset with his phone on a boat crossing the mythical Tyrrhenian Sea
Saltamontes — a grasshopper sitting in a cathedral dedicated to Mary Magdalene in Vézelay (France)
Vila Algarve — colonial building in Maputo where the Portuguese secret police operated from, abandoned ever since the long and bloody fight for independence
Chiesa — an ancient tree next to a church in Palermo, growing through a medieval-looking fence
Colonial Fruit — a shop in Napoli selling fresh produce
Untitled — somebody feeling the waves of time
Convitto — an abandoned monestary/school in Napoli
Windows — a screensaver in the station of Palermo showing the heat
Salita — a cactus growing through a fence, slowly breaking it
La Poesia — a pizzeria not found
Praça dos Trabalhadores — a square ("Square of the Workers") in Maputo with a lot going on and a very very peculiar cigarette brand advertising on the umbrella
Opway — the new office of the National Institute of Social Security in Maputo, which has been under construction for more than a decade
Solar — an abandoned house next to a solar-powered one in Porto
Tempo — a statue by Pietro Bianchi from the late 18th century, slowly disappearing under the bark of a tree
Ford — a heap of overgrown roof tiles inside Palácio Ford, once an influential and monumental factory in Porto
Vesúvio — the most dangerous, active volcano in Europe obscured by a lot of antennae, unable to receive any sort of seismic activity
Eden — a lush Mediterranean garden seen through rusty metal bars
Arch — remnants of a building from Roman times now completely repurposed (it is unknown what kind of building it used to be)

Tempo (2022)
Napoli

Ford (2018)
Porto

Vesúvio (2023)
Napoli

Eden (2022)
Napoli

Arch (2022)
Roma