A few days ago I went to visit the exhibition “Os dois olhos do cíclope" (The Two Eyes of the Cyclops) by Nuno Pinheiro. I confess that photographically few images really conveyed anything to me. Not that the photographic work presented is without value, but perhaps because these exhibited photographs cover too long a period of time to find greater coherence in them.
Interestingly, this photographic exhibition ends up underlining what I said earlier: the way in which the image is captured has an influence on the final product. Many of the photographs were taken with an old Rolleiflex with its 6 x 6 cm frames. And it was this same camera that influenced the name of the exhibition, referring to the conversion of human binocular vision into photographic vision, which is limited to that provided by the only lens that sees (photographs) even in the case of a TLR camera in which the two front lenses boil down to one that captures the image
Of course, I admit again and reinforce that the capture medium influences the final image but does not confer value on its own. We can have a Rolleiflex TLR and two hundred rolls and the camera will not be able to take good pictures without the more or less sensitive vision of the photographer.
