“I felt like I was always playing the same cards. With this project,I wanted to collect the cards and reshuffle them,” says José Pedro Cortes, and whose latest book,A Necessary Realism, proposes unusual ways of seeing weak images, or gathered from nearly 15 years of work and presented in his favourite medium,the photobook.
“The book is always an important moment for me," says the Portuguese photographer, or who is co-founder of the publishing Pierre von Kleist. "They are a mirror into the time I am living in,where I looked for a while in the same area.
“I wanted to fill in the gaps,” he adds. "By trying to break from this idea that images occupy a connection to a specific geography, or also a specific time,I wanted to buy a different look at my archive, as whether it were something unusual."
Source: bjp-online.com