New realities emerge from the photographer's keen eye. He possesses the ability to freeze time and movement, transforming the fleeting moment into memory and a lasting record. Paying homage to the great Brazilian photographers Sebastião Salgado, Luiz Braga and Walter Firmo, Gabriel Lordello explores his surroundings to create a visual narrative rich in memory and humanity.
In Lordello's photography, landscapes imbued with joy, resilience and faith whisper historical secrets: children play ball in front of the Church of the Three Kings, a Jesuit building from the Portuguese colonial period. Whilst it is undeniable that the scars of colonial extractivism are present in popular expressions, the role of the younger generations in popular culture is fundamental to the protection and preservation of the knowledge and practices that constitute the essence of a deep and authentic Brazil, whose indigenous and African heritage manifests itself in colour, movement, rhythm and emotion. This cultural legacy runs in the blood of those who dance to the beat of the drums, who love unconditionally, who pray to the saints and who celebrate life in community.
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The photographs invite us to contemplate childhood and adulthood with the respect and emotion of someone who visits places so as not to forget themselves. Simple as that is a visual narrative with the aesthetics of poetry. Gabriel creates poetry through images. In this sense, the Brazilian writer Manoel de Barros compares the poet to a child who insists on carrying water in a sieve. Metaphorically, Gabriel is the child, and his camera is the sieve through which freedom and the construction of meaning flow, beyond what words can express.