A change of scenery… After a couple of months restricted in the city, it was time to be able to see further than the building in front of my window. Going to the countryside for awhile…
As the days get warmer, longer, and the lock-down gets less restrictive, people move outside to recharge their batteries. That’s what I’ve been shooting lately, and what I’ll be sharing these days.#lisbon #portugal
More lockdown walks…
The fact that Iceland is again in the news because of another volcano makes me realize that one of the last photos taken abroad posted in my timeline was taken there……Almost a year and a half ago!!!!! In this snapshot Sumarliði was taking me with his cool black dog in his big red truck to Þingvellir (not the one you might be thinking…), I posted it right after arriving from Iceland and US in 2019. Since then a lot has happened, immediately after returning I dived into the winter solstice traditions, in the past years that has been my main focus in the winter months.…and just when that was over, early last year, that crazy 2020-thing really kicked off… Between a project to document the pandemic (https://www.everydaycovid.pt/) and a genuine lack of interest in browsing the archives, there was no room for photos further away from home…Maybe now it’s time to go back to that archive.
These pandemic days have turned into weeks, into months and right now on the verge of turning into years. And in the most restrictive times of the lock-down, like now, my universe becomes limited to the blocks around my house, the nearby streets, parks, all the places I’m able to reach in my almost daily walks. One of those places is the airport, a proximity that has been useful in some trips, when the long taxi line made me just walk home. This has been one of the recurring places I’ve end up finding myself, not because I’m trying compensate the lack of travel (but it’s funny to look to a routine it’s more and more distant, my last flight has been in 2019) but because I’m at a stage I’ve almost ran out of new places to walk to… #lisboa #portugal #street
Today is Carnival Tuesday or Shrove Tuesday, and in a normal year I’d be getting ready for this… But because it’s not I just dug into my archive to get something ready for later today. Stay tuned
Time Out Portugal #47
Lockdown routines still going strong…
darktable 3.4.1 released
I’m not going to use the current situation to promote my portfolio, but I’ve been thinking a lot about Myanmar lately, wondering what its near future holds, and honestly worrying about it… Because I was there before the democratic reforms, by the end of the military rule (has it ever ended?), my memories from there are a country that was closed and being held back by its ruling class. I remember clearly being surveilled, I remember people talking about the “Lady” quietly to me (who turned out to a disappointment). I have so many fond memories from there, and I think on returning there so often, but I’m not looking forward seeing Myanmar going back to what it was back then, even if it means an “unspoiled” and “authentic” country…