Farelo de Pão, parceria de peso!!

By Nan Goldin, about The Ballad of Sexual Dependency.

...These pictures may be an invitation to my world, but they were taken so that I could see the people in them. I sometimes don't know how I feel about someone until I take his ou her picture. I don't select people in order to photograph them; I photograph diretly from my life. These pictures come out of relationships, not observation.
People in the picturessay my camera is as much part of being with me as any other aspect of knowing me. It's as if my hand were a camera. If it were possible, I'd want no mechanism between me and the moment of photographing. The camera is as much a part of my every day life as talking or eating or sex. The instant of Photographing, instead of creating distance, is a moment of clarity and emotional connection for me. There is a popular notion that the photographer is by nature a voyeur, the last one invited to the party. But I'm not crashing; This is my party. This is my family, my history.
My desire is to preserve the sense of peoples' lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty I see in them. I want the people in my pictures to stare back. I want to show exactly what my world looks like, without glamorization, without glorification. This is not a bleak world but one in which there is an awareness of pain, a quality of introspection.
We all tell stories which are versions of history-memoraized, encapsulated, repeatable, and safe. Real memory, which these pictures trigger, is an invocation of the color, smell, sound, and physical presence, the density and flavor of life. Memory allows an endless flow of connections. Stories can be rewritten, memory can't. If each picture is a story, them the accumulation of these pictures comes closer to the experience of memory, a story without end.
I want to be able to experience fully, without restraint. People who are absessed with remembering their experiences usually impose strict self-disciplines. I want to be uncontrolled and controlled at the same time. The diary is my form of control over my lifr. It allows me to obsessively record every detail. It enables me to remember.

ARTE DUCA

Meus "olhos" no Beto.

ninguém falou em olhos..

Lou, PUC e eu!

cidades visiveis, foto de Anuschka Reichmann Lemos