Where the Dust Has Settled
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Resumo: | The Spanish word Despoblado, aptly describes Iñaki Bergera’s last photographic series. It translates rather directly in English as depopulated, but its rich Spanish etymology also alludes to the process of unravelling of a human settlement. Fittingly, the images present us with the reality of the abandoned villages in the hillsides of the Spanish Pyrenees. These are ruins of small hamlets, made up of stone cottages carefully clustered together, each of them hugging the topography of the site and collectively forming patterns that are a direct translation of the rural modes of production that made them possible. The images are crisp and calm, and as always with Bergera, the approach is a hybrid between the documentary impulse of topographic photography, and the careful depiction of space more typical of professional architectural photography. More specifically in this case, there seems to be a strong division of labor, with orthographic aerial images that capture the layout of each group of buildings with Cartesian precision, and a series of subjective shots in which the interior and interstitial spaces of the structures are portrayed carefully and lovingly at eye level, as if they were still in use. (...) |
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Where the Dust Has SettledThe Spanish word Despoblado, aptly describes Iñaki Bergera’s last photographic series. It translates rather directly in English as depopulated, but its rich Spanish etymology also alludes to the process of unravelling of a human settlement. Fittingly, the images present us with the reality of the abandoned villages in the hillsides of the Spanish Pyrenees. These are ruins of small hamlets, made up of stone cottages carefully clustered together, each of them hugging the topography of the site and collectively forming patterns that are a direct translation of the rural modes of production that made them possible. The images are crisp and calm, and as always with Bergera, the approach is a hybrid between the documentary impulse of topographic photography, and the careful depiction of space more typical of professional architectural photography. More specifically in this case, there seems to be a strong division of labor, with orthographic aerial images that capture the layout of each group of buildings with Cartesian precision, and a series of subjective shots in which the interior and interstitial spaces of the structures are portrayed carefully and lovingly at eye level, as if they were still in use. (...)CITYSCOPIO, CULTURAL ASSOCIATION2021-01-12info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://doi.org/10.24840/2183-8976_2021-0006_0001_19https://doi.org/10.24840/2183-8976_2021-0006_0001_19Sophia Journal ; Vol. 6 No. 1 (2021): Visual Spaces of Change: photographic documentation of environmental transformations; 189-191Sophia Journal ; Vol. 6 N.º 1 (2021): Visual Spaces of Change: photographic documentation of environmental transformations; 189-1912183-94682183-897610.24840/2183-8976_2021-0006_0001reponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAPenghttps://www.up.pt/revistas/index.php/sophia/article/view/411https://www.up.pt/revistas/index.php/sophia/article/view/411/365Copyright (c) 2021 Jesús Vassaloinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessVassalo, Jesús2023-12-09T05:11:05Zoai:www.up.pt/revistas:article/411Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-20T00:41:43.786211Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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The Spanish word Despoblado, aptly describes Iñaki Bergera’s last photographic series. It translates rather directly in English as depopulated, but its rich Spanish etymology also alludes to the process of unravelling of a human settlement. Fittingly, the images present us with the reality of the abandoned villages in the hillsides of the Spanish Pyrenees. These are ruins of small hamlets, made up of stone cottages carefully clustered together, each of them hugging the topography of the site and collectively forming patterns that are a direct translation of the rural modes of production that made them possible. The images are crisp and calm, and as always with Bergera, the approach is a hybrid between the documentary impulse of topographic photography, and the careful depiction of space more typical of professional architectural photography. More specifically in this case, there seems to be a strong division of labor, with orthographic aerial images that capture the layout of each group of buildings with Cartesian precision, and a series of subjective shots in which the interior and interstitial spaces of the structures are portrayed carefully and lovingly at eye level, as if they were still in use. (...) |
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