Machina mundi

The current three-year editorial project compasses the work of one of most noted living photographers in Brazil. These are photographs of the metropolis of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro seen from above, composed in a way that looks like a huge machinery. Claudio Edinger's (b. Rio de Janeiro, 1952) trick, which is photographed with the help of helicopters, revolves around precise illumination and radical use of selective focus, a function that allows you to create images with well-defined areas surrounded by a blurred effect. The close to fifty large-format aerial photographic images seem to have been captured by the eye itself: the main object is clear, while the surroundings appear blurred. Son of a German father and Russian mother, born in São Paulo, a Jew who is also Hindu. The photographer has twice won the Leica Medal of Excellence award in the United States, the Ernst Haas Prize.