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Cinematica

Teresa Capucho Correia de Freitas

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 Cinematica is an ongoing photographic series that reveals a transformative impact of colour in documenting real places and subjects around the world. Through specific colour aesthetics, a subtle yet intriguing shift in reality prompts viewers to question the authenticity of the scenes. Colour in each element of the image is curated in the light of the principles of colour theory, harmony and balance, where both soft and bright hues are thoughtfully mixed in varying proportions through tone and tint. Emphasising the impact on composition, subject, and place, each photograph becomes an exploration of colour's influence on both visual elements and emotional resonance. Cinematica invites the audience to engage with a convergence of reality and artistry, encouraging a heightened aesthetic response to the interplay of colour and narrative, while challenging conventional perceptions. 

There is a specific observational quality to these images, where each scene gains a greater importance after being edited, immortalising seemingly ordinary moments with a different perspective. A new approach to street photography explores a sense of the street as an extension of the home and the street as a theatre, playing with familiar motifs and daily-life details, and the theatrical quirkiness of human behaviour. 

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The Artist
Teresa Capucho Correia de Freitas
Nominated in
2024
By
Bienal Fotografia do Porto
Lives and Works in
Teresa Freitas (b. 1990) is a Portuguese artist and colourist based in Lisbon,Portugal. She graduated from Lisbon University’s Faculty of Fine Arts with a degreein Multimedia Art and a Masters in Design and New Media. Initially drawn to blackand white film, Teresa followed her influences from Painting and Cinema to apply aknowledge of colour theory and harmony to develop a signature style, characterisedby bright yet calming hues. Her photography now skilfully navigates the impact ofcolour in composition, subject, and place, and in the viewer's aesthetic response.

Teresa aspires to delve into the realm of post-documentary photography,characterised by a more intimate connection to the tangible world, and placing strongemphasis on a subjective, poetic method of crafting images and narratives. Shecontinues to be dedicated to the exploration of colour in photography and itsexpression as an individual artistic style.

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