JOÃO PEDRO LIMA

Feb 23

São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil.

When and where did you start photographing?

JPL: I started to work with images when my father gave me an analog camera in 2016. During those years, I was obsessed with street photography, mainly because I was working as a night time waiter in a restaurant and my only time to take photographs was around midnight when I had some time off.

Who/ Whom has been the reference of your photography?

JPL: My reference in photography is not photography itself. I'm more curious about cinema, music and theoretical books. To name a few, I'm watching a lot of films by Stan Brakhage, listening to ambient stuff like Sofie Birch and Thomas Köner and currently reading Serge Margel's book called "Arqueologias do Fantasma".

What do you want to communicate through your photographs?

JPL: I'm always trying not to search for an objective meaning in my images because they are always changing. The photographs that I'm currently working on are actually re-photographs from my own archive.

What does street and documentary photography mean to you?

JPL: I like to think of street photography as a way of archiving memories of that specific time and place, and this is very documentary: a city doesn't exist without these memories.

How are your life experiences reflected in the subjects we see in your photographs?

JPL: The obsession I have with experimenting in photography comes from my solitude during childhood, simply because I'm always alone doing my stuff, looking for new things - such as material things or even dreamy thoughts.