Never ending Buenos Aires / Buenos Aires infinita
by Lorenzo Zoppolato
portfolio shortlisted call 'Urbanautica Institute Awards 2023', 2023
Category: People and Communities
In 2023, on the centenary of the publication of 'Fervor de Buenos Aires', the debut collection of poems by Jorge Luis Borges, I started a journey in the city of Buenos Aires. I walked for more than 600 km through its "barrios", disclosing through photography the people and realities that inhabit it. I started to ask strangers in the streets and suburbs to photograph them; I was sure I had already imagined those people in poems and stories: I saw the reflection of the city in them. The countless difficulties, encounters and potential dangers turned out as opportunities that generated chain relationships that introduced me to the various souls of which Buenos Aires is composed. Poetry and photography together create a poetic map that does not lead to finding the right path, but rather to getting lost, thus revealing a never ending Buenos Aires.
also from Urbanautica Institute Awards 2023