Saudade it’s a Portuguese word to describe the felling of miss something or someone. The Saudade series results from the quest to find that felling of miss. The photos are a vision from the past, a personal vision and not a universal one.
Saudade is about memory, but isn’t an exercise of memory or remembering, it’s a process of filter emotions and the translation of these emotions in images. The series final result could only be sad, because is essence it’s in the past and the past never return. But it’s also joyful, because it‘s a celebration of the beauty contained in the simple things.
Leandro Guardado, 36, Portuguese, living in Portugal
Photographer, plastic artist, graphic designer and writer, Guardado is a Portuguese artist who has chosen image as the main way to express his vision of the world. As a conceptual photographer, his versatility has led him to create several works in the documentary photography and fine art photography.
In addition to his studies on photography, Guardado is also graduated in anthropology, which has led him to add a social and human depth to the artistic dimension of his work. In 2005 he published the book Poetic Anthology of My Imaginary Friends and in 2006 had its first exhibition in Lisbon, where he presented his works in the fields of photography, painting, installation and writing. Since then he participate in several collective and individual exhibitions for some of his projects and is preparing at the moment a new exhibition to present is new series. He was chosen to represent ETIC in the Vila Franca de Xira’s Biennale of Photography and he was presented as a “new talent” by the magazine DirectArts International.
