The Brick Collector


  • Photographer
    Miguel Proença
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    February 2016
  • Technical Info
    Medium format film

In a basement of a primary school in Narva behind a gate with a rusty locker there is a huge quantity of bricks, all organized by similarities, one above the other resting in shelves that go from the floor to the ceiling, the amount of dust envisions that they remain there still for long time. Igor, a thin nerd looking man has been collecting bricks for more than two decades, going once in a while to ruins around the region trying to find traces and clues of an absent past. During the years, Igor managed to collect fragments of an architecture parlante, remains from a speaking architecture that constantly tells us about the space and time it represents. The fragments are a continuous revival of memory, a recollection of political and cultural mutations occurred along the man-altered landscape in the Baltic States.

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