In search of themselves

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Photographer

Mario Baptista
Prize

Honorable Mention
Company/Studios

Mario Baptista
Date of Photograph

2022
Technical Info

1/600 sec f/2.8 iso 100
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Website

https://www.mariobaptista.com.br/

We enter this sphere an invitation to reflect on our own existence and the mysteries that inhabit our being. In these images, we are transported to urban landscapes, where black and white unfold in all their enigmatic magnitude and converge in a call to reconnect with our own inner selves, urging us to reveal our deep connection with the world around us. . Unexpected compositions, which mix the real and the unreal, awaken characters immersed in a state of introspection, which seem to come to life before our eyes, reanimating them in a unique narrative instance in search of themselves.

Biography

Three decades has passed for Mario Baptista to hold a solo exhibition since he got his first camera. Although he lived among cameras for quite a long time, he only started to dedicate himself exclusively to photography in 2019. The outcome of this full immersion capturing images was known in 2021, when it opened, in São Paulo, “Cidade Errante” exhibition. The exhibition is the result of his sensitive and refined look of the urban and human landscape of the metropolis and brings togethe images under the curatorship of the journalist, photographer Eder Chiodetto
Awards

Art Sampa 2022 – Exposição solo a convite da Galeria Carcará – Março,2022 Mostra Cidade Errante 2021 – Curadoria Eder Chiodetto. São Paulo – Agosto, 2021. PX3 – Silver Book/People – 2021 https://px3.fr/winners/px3/2021/11730/ PX3 – Menção Honrosa Nature/Sunset – 2021 https://px3.fr/winners/hm/2021/1-100588-21/ Grande Prêmio Fotografe 2021. Ensaio pré-selecionado, 2021. Escuridão Silenciosa. https://www.fotografemelhor.com.br/ensaio/cena-de-rua-ensaio/escuridao-silenciosa/ Revista Fotogra Melhor - O domínio criativo da baixa velocidade, 2021. https://www.fotografemelhor.com.br/materias/o-dominio-criativo-da-baixa-velocidade/ Black Box Gallery –Focus: Shadow and Light – Março, 2020 - Oregon, USA. https://www.blurb.com/books/10012230-focus-shadow-and-light Revista Fotofrafe Melhor –Matéria capa: O domínio criativo da baixa velocidade. Abril,2020 (nº283/ano24). https://www.fotografemelhor.com.br/materias/o-dominio-criativo-da-baixa-velocidade/ PX3 2020 – Menção Honrosa - “Comunidade Retratada”. Setembro, 2020. https://px3.fr/winners/hm/2020/1-97066-20/ Mostra de Portfólio do Festival de Tiradentes. Setembro, 2020. Art Gallery – Exposição virtual Life in Quarantine. Dezembro, 2020. Folha de São Paulo - Ensaio fotográfico captura rastros de luz em paisagens desérticas – Janeiro, 2020. https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/turismo/2020/01/ensaio-fotografico-captura-rastros-de-luz-em-paisagens-deserticas.shtml