onde está a essência da fotografia?

"onde está a essência da fotografia?" in english: "where is the essence of photography?"

I think that's an important question for every photographer...

And here is my gedanken experiment:

First I made a triangle frame and put a strange picture in it, where I dashed the ink before it was dry. Later I stamped the question on it.

After this I made a triptych with three black&white pictures which I printed on the backside of old pictures. As next step I stamped the question on them.

Well, this is my first gedanken experiment to solve this question, but I think that there are more solutions...

the good, the bad + the ugly

A brand new palimpsest triptych, which I made in an edition of 2.
As paper I've used some old statements of accounts, resp. information billets, which came sometimes with the statement of account.

the first edition:

"the good" part 1 (101) of triptych "the good - the bad - the ugly" - edition 1

"the bad" part 2 (102) of triptych "the good - the bad - the ugly" - edition 1

"the ugly" part 3 (103) of triptych "the good - the bad - the ugly" - edition 1

the second edition:

"the good" part 1 (201) of triptych "the good - the bad - the ugly" - edition 2

"the bad" part 2 (202) of triptych "the good - the bad - the ugly" - edition 2

"the ugly" part 3 (203) of triptych "the good - the bad - the ugly" - edition 2

recent works

I'm sorry, more than one month without a new post. I was very busy, but I made some new stuff:
some stamp and stencil works and some palimpsests:

"minha ignorância me diverte" ("my ignorance amuses me"), brasil, 2012

My postcard for the project "Mapas de Influências - Arte Postal":

The received postcards will be displayed on the site and will be part of an exhibition in August in the Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade in São Paulo (SP), Brasil.

 

My other recent works:

"big brother is watching you or you are watching big brother?", brasil, 2012

"BLIND", brasil, 2012

"matriz filial filial filial filial filial filial filial", brasil, 2012

"of governments", brasil, 2012

A window frame with some of the recent works. This is the set-up for an event in August: