Walter Firmo

Photographic review of work of Walter Firmo (b. Brazil 1937). Walter Firmo: no verbo do silêncio a síntese do grito. make a peculiar theory of photography, which knew how to build as a critique of the notion of photographic reality and objectivity, fighting any claim of a photographic neutrality in a world where so little neutrality exists. In each photograph, Firmo invites the viewer to 'immediate reflection on the reality displayed and on the very act of photography', aware that "the power of the gaze must influence people because the act of photographing has to be political, not a mere instant chance.''. The catalogue was produced on the occasion of the exhibition and brings the works dispayed in the exhibition, in addition to texts authored by Firmo himself, João Fernandes (IMS Artistic Director), and the curators Sergio Burgi and Janaina Damaceno Gomes. The book also features an interview of the photographer in conversation with the curators and the journalist Nabor Jr., editor of the magazine O Melenick. Segundo Ato, in addition to a chronology of the photographer signed by Andrea Wanderley.