"88"

• Prize
  Silver in Book/Other
• Photographer
  Vasco Trancoso, Portugal
• Date of Photograph
  Between 2015 and 2025
• Instagram
  #trancosovasco
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This book, titled "88 (88 images)," is a continuation of the internationally awarded book published in 2020 (under the title "99").
"88" reveals graphic fragments and glimpses of life in Portugal.It measures 330 mm x 225 mm (hardcover), 184 pages with photos only on the numbered pages, and an Afterword written by the excellent British photographer Paul Russell.
The author's shadow appears as a guiding thread throughout the sequence. A way of being, symbolically, behind the camera and in front of it, also participating in the composition.There is mystery, ambiguity, and drama within the pages.

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.