Fine Art Photography
Porto
Pieter Janssen Fine Art Photography
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In Porto I do photography tours: www.kikiphototours.com
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View on the world
I first noticed the circular concrete drainage pipes by the side of a road east of Hanoi and sensed they could be more than functional objects. They could become frames, openings onto the world.After imposing order on their scattered arrangement, I selected two pipes that could function as binoculars, aligning light, sky, and ground through their geometry.
Once the framing was fixed, the image shifted away from the structures themselves and toward what might pass through them. I waited for a suitable human presence that would complete the composition without disturbing its stillness. In Vietnam, the conical hat and bicycle carry a quiet cultural weight, crossing the frame as a fleeting marker of place and movement.
I returned several times, waiting for calm skies and a balance of blue and green that would reduce the scene to planes of color.
The final image is a meditation on patience and imagination: circles as windows, the landscape as a stage, and the passing figure as a measure of scale, time, and gesture.
Solitary traveler
On the Luís I Bridge in Porto, I was working with long exposures, aiming to capture the passage of people as fleeting traces against the permanence of the city. The bridge and its lines set in careful composition, meant to render the crowds as ephemeral, ghostly presences.
Then she appeared. Standing exactly at the center, aligned with the geometry I had framed, she remained still, her presence resolute. Then suddenly, there was a new layer, my attention shifted and the photograph became about her. She alone is sharp; the others dissolve into abstraction. The work shifted from the temporary and collective to the singular and enduring.
Her stillness among the blur evokes solitude: the impossibility of bending in, of choosing a different path, not being able of making contact. She embodies a quiet loneliness, a pause in the relentless flow of the city, while the bridge endures, carrying generations yet to come.
Solitary traveler
Hover Box Element
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