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By Joao M. Rato

NEW PHOTO ZINE IN MACAU

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NEW PHOTO ZINE IN MACAU /

FRANCISCO RICARTE

Halftone Founder & Member of the Board has the honour of cordially inviting you to the opening ceremony of his latest Solo Photographic Exhibition

14th May, 5:30pm at Orient Foundation

ASIA . FAR

14.05.2022 - 19.06.2022

Praca Luis Camoes, n13, Macau 10:00 - 19:00 / Closed on Mondays

HALFTONE #02

April 30th, 5pm at Portuguese Bookstore

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April 30th, 5pm at Portuguese Bookstore /

**Halftone #02**

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If you want to purchase this number please go to the Portuguese Bookshop in Macau or for international purchase please contact us.
Price: 100mop

Where are we heading to?

The title is bold, it could be the headline of a scientific journal for a new cosmos discovery or a theory of human evolution. This interrogation is not metaphorical anymore as we can replace its significance with concrete means: to the real. And to the unknown.

Determining the location and timing for displacement or retention of the population by means of war, crisis, climate, and viruses is at stake.

The paradox of our time is that of the asynchrony with our own time; from sedentary to nomadism, from identity to recreation of itself, from inclusion to vulnerability, from new riches to new refugees. We may well have missed the time when Walter Benjamin envisioned Photography as a way to see a world marked by the predominance of devices in which man has organized himself accordingly. And so we have, for his contentment. And here we are, entangled in the ever-increasing mutual dependency between ourselves and things, in an era of the worldwide web, where the hyper-image-conscious plays a weighty role. And Photography adapted. And people too, their visions and questions.

The magazine you have in hands, issue #02 of Halftone Photo Magazine, gives us syncopated signals at large of a suspended time and space — in suspense — of territories in transition where spaces are made of stages. The rails are there waiting for people to run on them. Photographers here are seeking new paths of reality, departing from the unknown. There is light in shadow, it ́s an outer shadow called the penumbra, not completely eclipsed.

Who would like to perform in a wrecked space, once a stage and once a building for well-dressed people? Why travelling is made of instances that will never happen again, like Photography, like life? What can a man do in a bolted dispute but stroll around the city? How can one take the most from a room with a view?

Time, space and light still seem to be the essence, but differently. Perhaps, the initial question is more ontological, to which our photographers shed penumbra. The cover photo may well be worthy of the original question, whereas the inside content would be left for readers to decipher by themselves.

The Editorial Team

We would like to invite you for the First Photobook Macau

With António Leong

30th April, 5pm

Portuguese Bookshop

“Dark Matter” at Macau Art Garden

The Portuguese architect and photographer Francisco Ricarte presents, on the 17th of March, Thursday, at 6:30 pm, at the Art Garden of the Art For All Society (AFA), his latest project entitled “Dark Matter”. This is a series composed of 12 colour and black and white photographs, in vertical and horizontal formats, measuring 90cm x 60cm.

Francisco Ricarte captured the images in early 2021 in Coloane, close to the sea and nature. Revealing to a certain extent, the photos, through a specific visual code, "seek to 'hide' more than they show 'see'".

Curated by local artist Alice Kok, the exhibition is the first part of the AFA’s annual project entitled “As Within, So Without – The Art of Imagery Exhibition Series”. “The global pandemic situation plunged the artist into a deep reflection on his own environment and, perhaps more importantly, on the possibilities of the unknowable. The whole series of photographs was taken in broad daylight in Coloane along the seafront of Macau with a deliberate decrease in the exposure level, thus creating a mysterious atmosphere of darkness under the sun”, writes the curator in her manifesto.

Alice Kok, also confesses an admirer of the work “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint Exupéry, highlights her famous phrase “the essential is invisible to the eyes”. “'Dark Matter' refers to a component of the universe whose presence is discerned by its gravitational pull rather than its luminosity. Dark matter makes up 30.1% of the matter-energy composition of the universe; the rest is dark energy (69.4%) and “ordinary” visible matter (0.5%)”, added the artist.

Before becoming a professional architect, Francisco Ricarte had been dedicated to photography since he was 21, in the 1970s, when he was offered his first reflex camera. Since then, he has been using the medium of communication as an expression of his own view of the environment around him. In 2006, he moved to Macau and worked as an architectural project manager until today. In recent years, Ricarte has participated in several group exhibitions where he presented his photographic works based mainly on landscape and architecture. The 66-year-old and year of retirement, the author, who is a founding member and vice president of the local photography association Halftone – reveals his latest work.

The exhibition is open until April 11 and can be viewed on Monday and Saturday, from 11 am to 7 pm.

Text: G.L.P.