ENTRY DESCRIPTION
The monumentality of the public buildings as well as the wide open spaces of the urban environment in Brasilia reduce the scale of human presence.

AUTHOR
José Roberto Bassul was born in Rio de Janeiro and lives in Brasília. Graduated in Architecture, he defines his photography as "an attempt to draw thoughts, to project desires, to build spaces for the imagination". He has received several national and international awards, including 1st place at the 10th Prix Photo AF 2021, the Latin America Prize at FotoRio 2020, Book Photographer of the Year at the Moscow Int’l Foto Awards – MIFA 2020, and 1st places at the Int’l Photography Awards – IPA in 2018 and 2021. Published in specialized magazines in Brazil, France, USA, England, Mexico, Argentina, Italy and Spain, his works has often been exposed in festivals, galleries and museums, in five solo shows and dozen of group exhibitions in Brazil and abroad. He published the photobooks Concretist Cityscape (2018) and On Barely Nothing (2020). Represented by galleries in Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, he has works in important private collections, and in the collections of the National Museum of the Republic (Brasília), the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro –MAM (Joaquim Paiva Collection), the Art Museum of Rio de Janeiro – MAR, the Diário Contemporâneo Photography Collection (Belém) and the Museum of Photography (Fortaleza).

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