Wednesday, 19 January 2011

Dispersion and Mão Morta

When I went to Porto to shoot the guys at Hard Club I already had a plan of what I really wanted to do. Instead of just taking pictures, I wrote down what kind of imagery I was going to produce.
Plus, I had an assignment for school. The teacher gave us a theme to work on. A complicated one.
"Dispersion - This is where everything gets disperse" (roughly translating).
We had a poem by Mário Sá Carneiro- Dispersão, to read and get inspiration from.
after reading it and understanding that his dispersion was in his mind, I thought I could shoot the gig and use it for this homework.
The plan was to deliver square images as opposed to the usual 10x15cm the teacher asks. I wanted to do blurry things, odd crops, silhouettes, shadows... This time, Dispersion would be in my photos.
This wouldn't be normal concert photography.

The photos showed here are the ones the teacher picked from a bigger set.
More photos are in my flickr gallery as usual.
Enjoy and feel free to comment.

I would like to add another thing:
If you like my work, play in a band and need some photographic work done, just send me an email.
I don't charge much (but I don't work for free either :D)
:)



Mão Morta - Hard Club, Porto 2010 - 02

Mão Morta - Hard Club, Porto 2010 - 03

Mão Morta - Hard Club, Porto 2010 - 05

Mão Morta - Hard Club, Porto 2010 - 06

Mão Morta - Hard Club, Porto 2010 - 09

Mão Morta - Hard Club, Porto 2010 - 11

Tuesday, 18 January 2011

Mão Morta @ Theatro Circo 2010

These photos were taken in the beginning of December 2010, 2 days after the death of a very good friend, a childhood companion, a brother.
My mind wasn't at the concert. I shot twice as many photos as I usually do but only a few are worth seeing.
  

MM Theatro Circo 2010 - 01

MM Theatro Circo 2010 - 02

MM Theatro Circo 2010 - 04

MM Theatro Circo 2010 - 05

MM Theatro Circo 2010 - 06

Saturday, 8 January 2011

New year

In October I enrolled on a 18-month Photography degree and since then I've been taking different pictures everyday.
I've been doing as I'm told as I'm trying to be a better photographer.
I've got a whole bunch of teachers and they send a LOT of homework to do.

This is a self portrait.
The hardest thing to do. I'm not photogenic, I'm well off better behind a camera than in front of one but I had to do my homework.

Auto-retrato * Selfportrait

Auto-retrato * Selfportrait

Auto-retrato * Selfportrait

Auto-retrato * Self-portrait

Auto-retrato * Self-portrait

Auto-retrato * Self-portrait

Thursday, 23 September 2010

Night

Yesterday the night was beautiful.
The temperature was warm and I travelled on the outside deck of the ferry.

Tejo à noite

Cacilheiro à noite