Author Description

It was nearly 50 years between the first photo taken in Salvador in 1968 and the last ones taken in 2015 on trips to Havana and New York. During this period, the veteran Brazilian photographer Geraldo Melo visited more than 30 cities around the world, including Amsterdam, Jerusalem, Gaza, Macapá, Tanger, Kanpur and Warsaw. The union of so many stories, colors and cultures is in the bilingual edition (Portuguese and English) Fragments, with poetic texts and autobiographical narrative, which won the following preface by the Brazilian photographer and curator Rogério Reis: Here Geraldo Melo presents himself as a flâneur, a an observer who travels around the world in search of cultural affinities. I perceive in its visuality a punctual character, episodic or better, each image of this set contains its course, a proper story that is enough. We are not dealing with a traditional narrative or the chronic type of urban behavior where the set suggests chapters that point to a plot. They are fragments of the mystical, sacred, mysterious, sensual, graphic and landscape world where the human figure is sometimes carefully positioned by the author suggesting perhaps the fragility of man before the immense.Cities photographed: Amsterdam, Holland; Antwerp, Belgium; Barcelona, Spain; Beirut, Lebanon; Belém, Brazil; Bethlehem, Palestine; Bom Jesus da Lapa, Brazil; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Cachoeira, Brazil; Campina Grande, Brazil; Calcutta, India; Casablanca, Morocco; Gaza, Palestine; Granada, Spain; Havana, Cuba; Helsink, Finland; Jerusalem, Israel; Kanpur, India; Lisbon, Portugal; Macapá, Brazil; Madrid, Spain; Manaus, Brazil; New Delhi, India; New York, United States; Porto, Portugal; Rio de janeiro Brazil; Salvador, Brazil; São Paulo Brazil; Sobradinho, Brazil; Tanger, Morocco; Tetouan, Morocco; Tel Aviv, Israel; Warsaw, Poland.Foram quase 50 anos entre a primeira fotografia tirada em Salvador, em 1968, e as últimas fotografias feitas em 2015, nas viagens a Havana e Nova York. Ne