"Colectivos" Landscapes bird's eye view by Cássio Vasconcellos

Cássio Vasconcellos is a Brazilian photographer who specializes in large format photography, aerial and panoramic. His photography avoids the conventional perception, thanks to its special point of view. The images are the result of composing hundreds of images taken at different shots. His latest work entitled "Collectives" focuses on large aircraft, beach landscapes, groups of bikes and cars to compose new landscapes halfway between the real and the surreal.

Collectives

The series “Coletivos” reveals a contemporary look of life stories from a globalized world seen through mosaics of constructed images. The observer is faced by large panels of aerial photos if seen from afar appear to be textures or geometric forms that if inspected closely, surprise the viewer with a richness of details that compose a daily urban lifestyle in consumption patterns.

The work on view reveals the enormous quantity of products and lands that humans beings uses for living in our planet. All the images, made of hundreds of different pictures that together creates imaginary landscapes, depicts the reality featuring huge areas that humanity needs each time more to aim all steps of the consumption chain. VERDE exhibit the big demand on food showing large areas used for plantations and CEASA presents the complex operation to distribute the food. Our society produce immeasurable quantity of disposals and ARIZONA show us an unbelievable boneyard composed by old aircrafts. AEROPORTO it’s a surreal created airport that it’s a portrait of globalization, mobility and the quickness of our way of life. The work COLETIVO represents a nightmare scene of what it’s happening in all big cities in the world where the car has a growing presence.

Micaela Neiva