By the river

Posted on 30 de Jun de 2024 Posted in City, RiverTagged Analog, Black and White, Dancing, Film, Gathering, Music, People, photo, Public, River, Tagus, Water2 Comments

Saturday afternoon, South bank of the Tagus. People gather there to meet, eat and drink.

Some people prefer to be left alone. A moment of rest to settle ideas and feelings

Others choose to dance. A group of friends, or more probably an informal dancing class. They bring their own music and dance in pairs. One of them directs the others, giving instructions before each music sometimes correcting their movements. They seem to take this quite seriously – but they share and communicate a lot of joy.

Some people make and play their own music…

… while others sit and talk, probably about the good old times

Puppet theater

Posted on 24 de Jun de 2024 Posted in CityTagged Analog, Black and White, Children, Film, Garden, Party, photo, Puppet, Theater1 Comment

June 13th was Lisbon’s municipal holiday – and that day coincides with the date of birth of the painter Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908-1992). There was a celebration at the Arpad Szenes-Vieira da Silva museum and in Amoreiras Garden, in front of the museum. As I passed by I noticed a group of children watching a puppet show.

It’s nice to see children looking at a something alive instead of being mesmerized by a screen…

Caritas romana

Posted on 1 de Jun de 2024 Posted in City, Imagination, MonumentsTagged Analog, Black and White, Breast, Daughter, Father, Film, Garden, Lisbon, Park, photo, Sculpture, Statue1 Comment

Enjoying a walk in the Botanic Tropical Garden, in Lisbon, I was surprised by this unnusual statue of a woman breast-feeding an adult male.

I looked for information about this sculpture. This baroque statue was made in Rome by Bernardino Ludovici in 1737, and brought to Lisbon by king Joao V. “Roman charity” is a classical greco-roman theme, and it is based on the story of a woman trying to save her own father, condemned to death by starvation, by secretly breast-feeding him.

As you can imagine, a variety of interpretations of this subject can be found, some of them very creative…

Three shadows

Posted on 15 de Apr de 2024 Posted in CityTagged Analog, Black and White, Film, photo, Shadow, Street, Summer, SunLeave a comment

On a sunny afternoon, first signs of the incoming Summer

A brief moment of unreality

Posted on 26 de Feb de 2024 Posted in City, ImaginationTagged Analog, Black and White, City, Street, Unreal1 Comment

Saturday afternoon, I was walking along the busy São Paulo Street, in downtown Lisbon. Suddenly, I was surprised by the view of an almost empty side street, just two girls photographing each other, no one else in sight. I just had the time to take this photo – a few moments later cars and people were filling that narrow street.

João Avelar images

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