America

by Mr. Esgar
Traficantes Ilimitados Agosto 2010

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ever thought of me as a photographer. In fact for the last 20 years Ive not even owned a

photos. I guess Antnio Lus was very proud of me! All those photos were kept on an hard drive for almost an year, until I was invited by another friend, valter hugo me, to post my works on his blog. Thought that could be interesting to show some of them to an audience beyond my friends so Ive chosen 99 photos to publish on a daily basis. (For this book, I kept out some of them). The initial idea for this series came from the title of a LP released by Crypt Records: God Less America. As in the record, Ive tried to choose not postcards but a more obscure side of America; a realistic landscape not as shown on Hollywood movies or as you can shoot on touristic sites. Forget the Statue of Liberty. Here youll find empty streets and lonely people. The real America, not the blessed by God.
Esgar Acelerado August, 2010

camera. The only reason for that was the fact that I never had the skills to capture on film what I could see... Thats why, early on my twenties, I decided just to draw and paint and leave photography for those who could explore it as an artistic expression. In the summer of 2007 my friend Antnio Lus, who is aware of my long time passion for north american pop culture icons and landscape, knew I was traveling to the United States and gave me one of his cameras. While driving me to the airport he told me: Man, dont come back unless you bring 1000 photos!. Still not thinking of me as a photographer, even with a camera on my hands after almost 20 years, I couldnt disappoint him. While on the road, for 4 weeks and through 13 states, I started shooting almost everything I saw and return to Portugal, with not 1000, but more than 4000

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All pictures by Esgar Acelerado (c) 2007 www.mr-esgar.com

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(c) Traficantes Ilimitados Agosto 2010