Dias Tras Dias is a film photography series that I created during a year-long journey through nine countries, from South America to North America. This project resembles a visual travel diary, where the itinerant nature of the journey allowed me to gain a different perspective on the world around me.
Through the observation of shapes, landscapes, and everyday scenes, I sought to reveal a visual poetry by developing a subjective photographic language, while drawing inspiration from the tradition of documentary photography.
The scenes I captured are not of significant events but rather non-events gleaned along the roadside, in forests, cemeteries, and villages, where the mundane becomes a subject for reflection. The people photographed are often anonymous, almost ghostly, blending into sometimes empty or deserted settings. Some spaces, seemingly abandoned, take on a mysterious dimension.
Another central aspect of the series is the ambivalent relationship with nature, sometimes overwhelming, sometimes reduced to invisibility. This constant tension between the natural and the artificial becomes a visual metaphor for our relationship with the world, questioning our ability to coexist with nature in a human-shaped environment.
Dias Tras Dias is an invitation to wander, a visual travel diary tinged with strange lyricism.
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