Circo&Ciudad by Alejandro Pérez Sacco [II]

Alejandro Pérez Sacco returns to his native Montevideo in 2014 after 7 years living in Spain, where he receives his first formal education as a photographer. Upon his return, he begins to perceive his city with renewed eyes and establishes contact with street circus artists in his neighborhood, near Parque Rodó in Montevideo. 

After this first contact, he quickly enters the city's circus world and begins to collaborate with groups of young artists in spaces managed by themselves. There, he registers their shows with his camera and performs a set of shots that are not always improvised. In many cases they are carefully elaborated scenes, in which the scene is prepared meticulously by the plastic artist and set designer María Noel Toledo.



With social networks as tools, he began to upload these series of photographs, and over time many artists posed for them and generated a more professional material to be able to perform at festivals and competitions. Thus, a synergy between artists and photographer was established, mutually reinforcing their work through collaboration.

To encourage and promote the visualization of this collective, the Circo & Ciudad Montevideo project arised.