honorable mention
ANTONIO SCHUBERT brazil
title
Mystery and Memories in the Brazilian High Mountain Rainforest
The first time I went to Parque Nacional de Itatiaia in 1981, I saw one cabin in the middle of a green ocean, practically unreachable at 4300 ft of altitude. I wondered who would live there and what kind of life this person would have. How would he buy food? Would he watch TV? I promised myself that one day I would find the way to get there. I fulfilled that promise only 34 years later.
Finally, I would just like to say that these images are to me more a starting point than a simple landscapes record. What attracts me is the possibility of fable, of seeing the mystery and and seeking the unfathomable that lies behind the image ("There are more things" - Jorge Luis Borges)
I am interested in photography that has an affectionate eye over all things, whether it is the one that approaches the human being as an individual or as an element inserted in the landscape, which manifests itself as a pure concept, which is remembrance, amazement or insufficiency.
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entry description
The city of Rio de Janeiro has a singular relief, historically expanded tight between the sea and several mountains, such as Corcovado and Sugar Loaf. We have here the largest urban forest of the world, Tijuca Forest. The entire state is cut by mountain chains that still preserve, in some areas, forests that date back to the Discovery of Brazil, as in the images of the Mantiqueira Ridge. These landscapes fill my imagination since I as a child, when I traveled in the back of the car with my parents, to the countryside to visit my grandparents, along roads that laid on cliffs that, for me, were very dangerous. In my imagination, the mountain that I saw in Rio, on the way to school, was the same I saw 60 mi from the city. Everything for me was a dream of mountains and forests.The first time I went to Parque Nacional de Itatiaia in 1981, I saw one cabin in the middle of a green ocean, practically unreachable at 4300 ft of altitude. I wondered who would live there and what kind of life this person would have. How would he buy food? Would he watch TV? I promised myself that one day I would find the way to get there. I fulfilled that promise only 34 years later.
Finally, I would just like to say that these images are to me more a starting point than a simple landscapes record. What attracts me is the possibility of fable, of seeing the mystery and and seeking the unfathomable that lies behind the image ("There are more things" - Jorge Luis Borges)
about the photographer
Brazilian, I live and work in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Photography for me is contemplation. But despite a personality given to the observation of the attitudes and reactions of others in various everyday situations, I only started to photograph in 2008.I am interested in photography that has an affectionate eye over all things, whether it is the one that approaches the human being as an individual or as an element inserted in the landscape, which manifests itself as a pure concept, which is remembrance, amazement or insufficiency.
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