Avaria by Humberto Brito
Avaria by Humberto Brito
Photographs by Humberto Brito
Texts by Humberto Brito
Printing by Maiadouro
Design by ilhas Studio
Edition of 150
Self-published, 2019
Softcover, 64 pages, 21 x 26.6 cm
ISBN 978-989-209959
Damaged Goods
Avaria (Damaged Goods) meditates on an analogy between the deterioration of public spaces and the way we become who we are. Becoming who we are is as determined by the choices we make and by our firmness of purpose, or lack thereof, as it is by context, accident, neglect, opportunity, by the violence caused by others, by stupidity. Maybe life is but this heartless, authorless process, through which, as if by invisible hand, cities and persons become gradually damaged. As I was making these images, I started to see that — the anonymity of the damages — in every place, in each thing, in everyone, in my own life.
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Humberto Brito (Setúbal, 1980) is a photographer and professor of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and a member of the Nova Institute of Philosophy. He holds a PhD in Literary Theory from the Universidade de Lisboa. He had teaching appointments at Universidade de Lisboa (2009), University of Chicago (2011), and Stanford University (2009, 2014). He studied at Atelier de Lisboa from 2015 to 2019. He has published essays, reviews and three books: Avaria (self-published, 2019); Regras de Isolamento (with Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, FFMS, 2020), and Estrada e Fantasmas (LEBOP, 2020).
