Honorable Mention / 2024 / Special / Street Photography

Hat Man

There is a man in a hat walking through the set of images.
It is unknown whether he is the same man or not.
His figure evolves and relates to structures, other people and other shadows.
Is there an Enigma or a story that the sequence of images shows us?

Born in Lisbon but since 1983 Vasco Trancoso lives in the city of Caldas da Rainha - Portugal. A gastroenterologist that, after retirement, resumed an old passion asleep: Photography. At the end of 2014, to begin making photography in public places. During 2015/2016, his photographic "voice" has changed and his work has been "in colors”. Since then, he has been fascinated to discover the magic of light in the urban kaleidoscope mainly when fragments of colors emerge between deep shadows. A way of seeing through the primacy of aesthetic choices, geometries and the elaboration of contrasts.