Souls in the Mist
by Alexandre Duarte
This collection was not planned at all. I was going through a phase of lack of time and lack of inspiration.
Certainly, the pandemic was not helping. When you keep on being confined on regular basis (not being against those measures) it made me lose inspiration.
Writer's block happens to photographers too! Especially when you’re a street photographer and the streets are empty…
But on December 29, I saw this mist at night through my window and thought I need to go out with my camera.
Suddenly my inspiration came back.
We were in confinement again. I took this series of 4 pictures that night and they just blend naturally into what I usually portrait: urban loneliness.
Alexandre Duarte, a Portuguese national, was born in Brussels in 1965. Son of a diplomat, and a diplomat himself, he spent most of his life abroad. During his teen years, he discovered his passion for film photography and built his own darkroom. During the 1990s, for several personal reasons, he put his camera aside. Only in 2013, while posted in Kazakhstan, the passion for photography came back. Although being an aficionado of analogue photography and manual cameras he converted to digital. His work is in black and white as in colour and it started to get noticed in several photography communities, and awarded and published in some international photography competitions.
In 2018, he created his site “The World according to Me, Myself and Eye” and was invited as an editor for the online magazine “Univers d’Artistes”. In 2020 he edited his first book through crowdfunding and now is experimenting with photography in the NFT space.