Photographer: Miguel De

”Between 2017 and 2019, I got in the habit of getting in my car and driving around the country quite often. I wanted to explore Portugal, meet new people and new places, I wanted to escape my own loneliness with movement, the road passing under my car. I took my 35mm camera with me and looked for landscapes that attracted me, places that caught my attention, people that captured my interest. And I photographed them. I photographed the sea, I photographed the land, I photographed the cities and the streets, I photographed the faces and the bodies, the bodies dressed and naked, standing and moving. I let myself overcome my difficulty in talking to strangers and they stopped being so. They opened up to my camera, to my gaze, they let themselves be photographed, explored by representation, tempted by desire. And while looking for the other and more, I would like to say that I had found myself; but I don’t think that happened. It took two more years to realize that, I had to find myself to realize that it hadn’t happened yet. In that sense, I looked back at the images I took in those years and selected the ones that best communicated that search, the melancholy of exploration, of self-knowledge, of the bodies of others towards my own body and my own identity. A collection of images in which I seek in bodies to know a body, my body”

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