Rui Palha - Relationships

June 9th, 2008 | Scroll down for comments

Introduction

Rui Palha doesn’t like to say about himself. He prefers that people see his work and judge for themselves what he is about. He says:

Photography is a very important part of my space… it is to discover, it is to capture giving flow to what the heart feels and sees in a certain moment, it is being in the street, trying, knowing, learning and, essentially, practicing the freedom of being, of living, of thinking….

Any street photographer should love and respect the people of the street, the main actors of street photography.

Rui Palha was born in Portugal in 1953 and lives in Lisbon. He pursued photography as a hobby intermittently from the age of fourteen. Since 2001, he has devoted most of him time to capturing moments of life on the streets of the city. He cites Henri Cartier-Bresson, Elliot Erwitt and Robert Doisneau as influences, and their collective mark is apparent in his work.

You can see more of Rui Palha’s work at:

weinmaster.blogspot.com/search/label/Rui%20Palha

and

http://www.flickr.com/photos/88954196@N00/

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Rui Palha’s work joins technical excellence with intimate connection to the subjects. I look at the people in his images and feel like I know them. I draw back and appreciate the range of tone, letting my eyes wander from detail to detail, moving through the engaging compositions; and then I dive back in for more with a smile.

What do you think of these photos? What individual images have particular meaning for you? What is the effect of the set as a whole? Thank you for your comments.

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