Worn Pathways series
São Paulo is an irregularly developped city. Both in its economic and cultural facets. From the original "Central Triangle", that drew the limits of the urbanized city centre in untill the end of the 19th century, São Paulo is, nowadays, the largest Latin-American city and one of the largest cities of the world, with just over 12 million inhabitants. The landscape, whether geographical or achitectural, is irregular: high-rises, brutalist buildings, low floor houses and slums, all of different epochs and styles. In São Paulo, everything lead your view up or down, although keep going forwards is the only choice. Counting only with a mobiel phone camera, the snapshots of the 'Worn Pathways' series, besides being a worn-in-progress, portrays some views of the centre of the city of São Paulo as well as some on my native neighbourhood of Perdizes, in the West Zone of the city and one of the most developped areas of the city. They are snapshots of material culture that, in my view, express the cultural life of part of the city: from a toilet lined with yesterday newspaper and a footprint left on fresh cement to a couple of views of the Martinelli building, (the highest in town); from a one year gap repeated photography of the same alley one block down from where I lived, the series points out to the visual aesthetics of a part of the city that translate into noises and express the visual pollution and/or richness of the city. Despite the peculiarity of São Paulo, the snapshot series received its title from the worned-out carachter that the city - although always renewing itself - transpire. A certain feeling of decadent monumentality and an overwhelming amount of information that begin from the pavement itself, with its cracks and footprints up to the edges of the historical and brutalist buildings, with their pixações and graffitties.
The 'Worn Pathway" series can be viewd by clicking here.
