SUSANA PAIVA | documentary and fine art photography: Featured Galleries and Collections

Actos de Fé

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guimarães | unesco world heritage site

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ceci n'est pas Barcelona

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panasqueira mines | a city under the village

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Paris | nuit blanche 2010

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essaouira

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ceci n'est pas paris

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]]>I am a photographer. I became a photographer over the past 20 years, years full of learning and doubts, a propulsion that today ensures that I have found my look. I built my uniqueness through constant research and experimentation, discovering my pace, safe distance and subject of choice. Today I know I'm a slow photographer that requires time for contemplation, for installation in a certain space or interaction with a certain subject. I discovered that I am a photographer of the tangible that needs to be close to the subject, creating emotions – to move and to be moved – to share generously the photographic projects and the ideals. I understood that I am pushed by an immense need to transfigure the reality and to browse the poetic fragments in everyday life, that photography became my first language, gradually replacing the primal word in my interaction with the world. Today I know that is only when I share the images I create, as well as the passion I have for photography, that I am fulfilled, not only as a professional but most importantly as a human being. Ceci n'est pas Paris is my latest photo series where, revisiting a variety of places in Paris, I cross the desire to create dreamed images, ethereal, close to the imaginary of Hiroshi Sugimoto’s "Architecture", with René Magritte’s observation in "Ceci n'est pas une pipe", to create a new iconography for city-light. If, as Magritte states, the image is not the reality but only one possible representation of the same, why not create images representing the dream, the imagination, the primal primitive shape that mental images are?

Susana Paiva

documenta 12

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like a dream | a tribute to Hiroshi Sugimoto

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while you slept

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from darkness to light | celebrating Lent in Fundão

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strange light

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fez | morocco

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marrakech color | a tribute to Costa Manos

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camargue

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plastic morocco

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