Neuza prefer analog photography. The process is important - the ritual of setting the camera ready, thinking about everything I want in the frame and then waiting impatiently to see the result.

 

The serie "unknown" is about identity. Neuza found slides in the garbage and decided to work on it,

” I don't know who these people are and I'll never know. When I think about that, I put some questions, like: where are this people now? why they threw the photos to the garbage? and I automatically think of death. Not necessarily a bodily death, you know? Something died in those people, I do not know what. And their identity is an important part of this death, so I decided to remove them which makes them recognizable. These people are ‘missing bodies’  just like the slides. and they are also the memory of some diffuse thing. “

 

 

1992年出生的Neuza Rodrigues，現在於里斯本就讀平面設計，並自稱「攝影狂熱者」。13歲便開始練習拍照的她，著迷於紀錄生活片段，把記憶複製到紙上，永久地保有走過的地方。Neuza喜歡底片攝影。放置底片，思考畫面的配置，到不安地等待沖洗結果——對她來說，過程，是攝影中最美麗的部份。

 

「unknown」系列講述的是身分認同。Neuza在垃圾桶裡發現了被人丟棄的照片。Neuza不知道他們是誰。於是，她想到了死亡——不是肉體上的死——而是，什麼東西彷彿在他們體內死去那樣。像是，身分？

 

生活在里斯本這樣一座多情的城市裡，家鄉的意義本身對於Neuza來說，仍是個未知的他方。Neuza的作品闡述的是過去與記憶——或許等到多年後離開這裡，里斯本，才能夠成為Neuza記憶的片段之一。

 

 

Neuza Rodrigues