Penelope Umbrico

Penelope Umbrico, 2006. Revista ZUM

“Perhaps part of the beauty of taking a picture of a sunset is that while you are doing it it’s likely that a million other people are doing it as well – at exactly the same time. I love this idea of collective practice, something we all engage in despite any artistic concern, knowing that there have been millions before and there will be millions after. While the intent of photographing a sunset may be to capture something ephemeral or to assert an individual subjective point of view–the result is quite the opposite - through the technology of our common cameras we experience the power of millions of synoptic views, all shared the same way, at the same moment. To claim individual authorship while photographing a sunset is to disengage from this collective practice and therefore negate a large part of why capturing a sunset is so irresistible in the first place.”

Ver essa coleção de fotos me lembrou das várias fotos do céu que eu tenho salvas no Instagram. No fim das contas, são todas fotos iguais as outras, com uma leve variação aqui e alí. Percebi que por mais que haja uma habilidade de enquadramento e coloração de quem tirou a foto, o ponto principal é o céu. Eu mesmo posso tirar essas fotos e me reunir com todas essas pessoas que admiram o céu comigo. Com exceção do céu de Fortaleza, que é sempre especial.