Places: a delicate balance between man and nature

Portuguese architecture photographer Ricardo Oliveira Alves masterfully immortalises his country’s architecture, sharing universal feelings with the observer.
Ricardo Oliveira Alves, educated as an architect with ten years of experience in the profession, is primarily interested in the relationship between man and nature. His interest in the place where the two come together is demonstrated in his “Archilapses”, time lapse shots of buildings engraved by light and time.
Here we present “Places”, his study of spaces as anthropised places: places where man interacts with the landscape.
This profoundly poetic study is a witness to, or rather, a visual reflection of, his second great passion: music. The photographs in the Places series are about the eternal dialogue between man and the world around him, using a visual and compositional vocabulary with all the expressiveness of the rhythms of music: varying from gentle to passionate, but always harmonious.
Photographer Ricardo Oliveira Alves shares much more than pictures of his native Portugal with us, as his collection of photographs offers the viewer a vision of the country that goes beyond mere manufacture or pure landscape, opening up the view and the mind to the delicate balance between man and nature.
 
Christiane Bürklein (@chrisbuerklein)
 
Ricardo Oliveira Alves Photography, http://www.ricardooliveiraalves.com/