Ruaria

Abstract

The Mouraria in Lisbon is the street par excellence. “Um bairro que é mesmo rua” (A neighbourhood that really is a street). The calçada Portuguesa (Portuguese pavement) covers the ground without extrinsic discontinuity. On the street people walk in synchrony, talk to their neighbours looking out of a window, park their bikes, stop to admire a view. The passage of time is constant. The azulejos slightly scratched by its inexorable passage prove it.

Two figures silhouetted in the distance along a bottleneck, abruptly approaching to the point of almost stepping out of the frame. Dynamism. A few metres further on, a static, contemplative moment. Stillness.
[summer 2016, double exposure technique directly in camera, not in post-production].