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The Observatory

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During a trip with my good friend Arthur Scovino, chance got us facing this abandoned observatory by a dirty countryside road…We took some time to photograph ourselves below that great dome. Numa viagem com meu amigo Arthur Scovino, o acaso nos colocou diante desse observatório abandonado, numa estradinha […]

Acrofobia

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Eu encontrei com Marcio depois de uns meses de conversa. Ele mora numa cidade ao longo do meu trajeto semanal, e nossas agendas finalmente coincidiram. Eu tinha uma certa idéia de onde e como fazer as fotos dele a partir do que a gente já havia discutido ao […]

Raise up the Stakes

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Once one starts playing that little game I mentioned in the first post of this series, there are inescapable thoughts that come to one’s mind during the wanderings in places like that: “how to make it more daring?”, “what would it feel like to be playing for the […]

Brewery Ballroom

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Here´s a little more of the night spent exploring an abandoned brewery in former East Berlin. The place is huge, with large rooms like this one, filled with debris and all sorts of traps to the unwary. For more on the history of the place, the always accurate […]

Who Watches the Lurkers?

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Abandoned places can be a kind of doorway to our unconscious or buried thoughts and wishes. By entering those places one may experience all sorts of sensations and let imagination run free. Is the place really deserted? If not, who might be there, lurking in the dark corners? […]

Gávea Tourist Hotel

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Há uns anos eu queria visitar o esqueleto de um hotel em construção, repousando nas montanhas do Rio. Um projeto dos anos 50, que nunca foi completado. Um habite-se foi expedido somete pros últimos andares, onde funcionaram um restaurate e uma boite por algum tempo. Uma imensa festa […]

Spectres

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A fortification from the 17th century, overlooking one of the most beautiful and fast changing strips of the Braziian coast. Once a playing field involving the Portuguese, the Spanish, and even some Neapolitan help in the bloody battles to expel the Dutch invaders, who took possesion of significant […]