FRAGMENTS
subject: Street
description: Page by page, this book gives materiality and makes visible scenes, snapshots and situations without ever limiting itself to a specific genre, discipline or subcategory of photography. On the contrary, Eric Oliveira blurs the stylistic boundaries, moving with virtuosity through pictorialism, abstraction, chromaticism and experimental photography, to then enter documentary, landscape architecture and even macro photography, refuting the regulatory aspects of the ways in which we usually relate to photographic narratives. The sequentiality seeks to converge sensitive images that are apparently dissociated into the same narrative, which allows the photos/frames to act on the interpretation of each other. In the context of visual metaphors, it is also important to highlight the interpretative syntheses and the production of meanings generated by Fragments. Far from the intention of translating the essence of an unfathomable city into images, Eric Oliveira prioritizes the collateral feelings and sensations obtained through contact with each photograph. The aim is not to limit each frame to a concrete event, but rather to release the symptoms of time and the implicit discourses in the juxtaposition of colors, shapes, words, characters, textures and grooves. Completely disregarding standardized approaches, his photographs claim the function of reimagining a multifaceted city where visual identities compete and permeate every corner and location. The concerns and ambivalences inherent to this journey pave the way for Londoners themselves to relive, observe and feel attentively the city they inhabit. In Fragments, his second authorial book, Eric Oliveira metabolizes all his technique by visually discussing a city that welcomes him and makes him overflow. In this fragmented imagination between the exceptional and the mundane, photography stands out as a powerful form of expression capable of reflecting on history, identity and transience. Each of these fragments can be an inv…
creator: Photographer Eric Oliveira - All right reserved 2026
publisher: Self Published
date: 2025
format: 170gsm Silk Paper with Hard Cover