This week’s guest at APAD is Fábio M. Roque from Lisbon, Portugal with some pictures from his series Redemption.
Fábio, born and still based in Lisbon, studied photography at I.P.F. (Portuguese Institute of Photography) and later attended the workshop of History of Photography Contemporary at Ar.Co., Lisbon 2010. His work being mainly documentary, he recently discovered a passion for a more personal kind of photography. Fábio already had several solo exhibitions. Lately, Fábio began collaborating with the Collective Phos (which again regularly collaborates with the online platform “A Viagem dos Argaunautas“.)
Redemption is a photographic project that is based on a discontinued narrative, which may seem confusing. However, is quite simple, it is a personal reflection of my journey to the present day. So it’s definitely a autobiographical project, but not only that, I tried to build a memory, a register of my recent journey as an individual, and also as an individual within a society as complex as ours. So it is a project that can be approached from different angles, but reflect contradictory topics as faith, death, sex and loneliness. The present images has been taken between 2005 and 2013..
This week’s guest at APAD is Daniel Zakharov with pictures taken from his series Modern Wilderness.
This series addresses the issue of animals in imprisonment. My intention was not to criticize zoos which nowadays have become ever more important in the conservation of species, but to focus on the strange and bizarre daily life of animals. Nowadays animals are born in captivity, between concrete, tiling, cement-slab buildings and artificial landscapes instead of the endless stretch of nature. In the meantime the zoo has become home for the animals and they have lost the memory of their ancestral breeding grounds. This is Modern Wilderness.