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Mármore
I felt the need to look at the end of things, to give shape to an overwhelming sense of finitude. Traveling to places of war, disease, willful wrongdoing or, simply, sites of blatant mismanagement, I was faced with human iniquity, greed, violence, frailty and suffering. I witnessed personal desire being often reduced to an almost negligible part in a loaded negotiation for basic sustenance. Individuals are rendered insignificant, their arguments totally contingent on historical process.
The photographs in Mármore refer to the demise of accountability and the loss of personal agency. These pictures testify to photography's inability to explain anything. They are evidence, as with many of their subjects, of a suffocating impotence.Greyhound Trust Kennel, Hersham, England, 2006 01 / 44 Greyhound Trust Kennel, Hersham, England, 2006 02 / 44 Greyhound Trust Kennel, Hersham, England, 2006 03 / 44 Lisbon Institute of Legal Medicine, Portugal, 2005 04 / 44 Lisbon Institute of Legal Medicine, Portugal, 2005 05 / 44 Lisbon Institute of Legal Medicine, Portugal, 2005 06 / 44 Lisbon Institute of Legal Medicine, Portugal, 2005 07 / 44 1st Erotic Fair, Lisbon, Portugal, 2005 08 / 44 1st Erotic Fair, Lisbon, Portugal, 2005 09 / 44 Ovar, Portugal, 1990 10 / 44 Guerreiros do Rio, Portugal, 1996 11 / 44 Military School Museum, Lisbon, Portugal, 2006 12 / 44 Freamunde, Portugal, 2006 13 / 44 St. Jorge, Azores, Portugal, 2004 14 / 44 Pinheiro da Cruz Prison, Portugal, 2001 15 / 44 Pinheiro da Cruz Prison, Portugal, 2001 16 / 44 Stadium of Light, Lisbon, Portugal, 2004 17 / 44 May 1 Stadium, Braga, Portugal, 2002 18 / 44 Vila Real de Santo António, Portugal, 1996 19 / 44 Lisbon, Portugal, 2000 20 / 44 Diu, India, 1999 21 / 44 Diu, India, 1999 22 / 44 Diu, India, 1999 23 / 44 Diu, India, 1999 24 / 44 Sodefor Logging Company, Bandundu, D.R. Congo, 2005 25 / 44 Sodefor Logging Company, Bandundu, D.R. Congo, 2005 26 / 44 Kinshasa, D.R. Congo, 2005 27 / 44 Sodefor Logging Company, Bandundu, D.R. Congo, 2005 28 / 44 Rogatica, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1999 29 / 44 Bosnian-Serb refugee camp, Visegrad, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1999 30 / 44 Bosnian-Serb refugee camp, Visegrad, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1999 31 / 44 Canice, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1999 32 / 44 Maternity, Al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza, Palestine, 2005 33 / 44 Gaza, Palestine, 2005 34 / 44 Gaza, Palestine, 2005 35 / 44 Gaza, Palestine, 2005 36 / 44 Gaza, Palestine, 2005 37 / 44 Gaza, Palestine, 2005 38 / 44 Nioki Hospital, D.R. Congo, 2005 39 / 44 Nioki Hospital, D.R. Congo, 2005 40 / 44 Nioki Hospital, D.R. Congo, 2005 41 / 44 Nioki Hospital, D.R. Congo, 2005 42 / 44 Nioki Hospital, D.R. Congo, 2005 43 / 44 Nioki Hospital, D.R. Congo, 2005 44 / 44