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joao batista's photostream
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"Sou um selvagem, uma criança - ou um maníaco; ponho de lado todo o saber, toda a cultura, abstenho-me de ser herdeiro de um outro olhar" (Roland Barthes)
"The history of photography could be recapitulated as the struggle between two different imperatives: beautification, which comes from the fine arts, and truth telling" (Susan Sontag)
"Photography is the easiest thing in the world, if one is willing to accept pictures that are flacid, limp, bland, banal, indiscriminately informative and pointless, but if one insists on a photograph that is both complex and vigorous, it is almost impossible"
John Szarkowski (director of MoMA 1962-2001)
"You don't make a photograph just with your camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved"
Ansel Adams


Photos of joao batista (6)
joao batista's favorite photos from other Flickr members (13,752)
Contacts (604)
Groups (50)
- LoveDBB [dof-blur-bokeh] 3,339 photos, 220 members
- Superosity 48,466 photos, 2,185 members
- Utata 378,366 photos, 20,419 members
- Scotland Black and White 16,980 photos, 1,280 members
- Carpaccio Magazine 51,129 photos, 2,807 members
- Tu mundo Blanco......Y negro. 88,798 photos, 6,644 members
- chronotope 3,877 photos, 556 members
- Fictitious Reality 35th Exhibition-ps70 returning slowly 20 photos, 422 members
- ART OF SOFT FOCUS 2,523 photos, 197 members
- Visual Iceland 9,828 photos, 709 members
- Deep North 120,520 photos, 4,341 members
- BLACKartWHITE 114,267 photos, 7,245 members
- Human in Geometry 35,763 photos, 2,858 members
- Like a movie in black and white 2,357 photos, 476 members
- Fictitious Reality 33 th Exhibition- maree. 18 photos, 557 members
- SILUETAS-SILHOUETTES 35,414 photos, 5,448 members
- Waterfalls Around the World 61,538 photos, 10,310 members
- Waterfalls 94,481 photos, 14,035 members
- Íslenskir fossar - Icelandic waterfalls 5,807 photos, 1,036 members
- ● 12,414 photos, 1,550 members
- Fictitious Reality 32 th Exhibition- HanaS. 16 photos, 563 members
- out of focus // blurred 277 photos, 55 members
- Fictitious Reality 31 TH Exhibition- An Vie / Karine 15 photos, 327 members
- Concepto, idea (Sólo FOTOS) 20,853 photos, 1,096 members
- Je suis venu(e) vous dire / I came to tell... 139,559 photos, 3,716 members
- The simpler . the better 21,763 photos, 1,173 members
- Fictitious Reality-30 Exhibition- gabonezu (back but very s/) 2 photos, 240 members
- blurism 29,509 photos, 1,528 members
- flou/ratés/mauvaise qualité 8,320 photos, 447 members
- Fictitious Reality 29th Exhibition-Une petite touche française 19 photos, 264 members
- Grainy, Blurry, Yet Good 9,108 photos, 761 members
- Total Blur 7,214 photos, 1,005 members
- Blurred But Beautiful 1,145 photos, 142 members
- haphazart! Abstractions 81,194 photos, 3,159 members
- It's the Composition, Flickr 27,720 photos, 1,323 members
- Blurring 352 photos, 27 members
- over the real 7,956 photos, 527 members
- Flou, bougé, volontaire et étudié. 2,105 photos, 227 members
- blurfection 29,897 photos, 1,810 members
- lack of focus 731 photos, 204 members
- Landmannalaugar 412 photos, 79 members
- ICELAND black&white 3,931 photos, 608 members
- Iceland - Landscape 59,327 photos, 4,837 members
- Best of Iceland 3,453 photos, 1,958 members
- Beautiful Iceland 45,802 photos, 2,359 members
- 5000 reasons for travelling to Iceland 3,903 photos, 1,437 members
- Iceland. 117,310 photos, 5,536 members
- Lost rêve (No nudity) 3,948 photos, 335 members
- Focus is overrated - defocus! 4,905 photos, 1,988 members
- HCSP Print Exchange 81 photos, 86 members
Testimonials (7)
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isabelsc says:
"João
Que fotografias fantásticas aqui e na tua exposição.
Beijinhos
Isabel"18th October, 2009
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Na ! (thalie) says:
"Joao Batistan est un artiste bourré de talent qui nous invite hors du réél. Il nous ouvre les yeux sur ce qu'on ne voyait pas.Il le fait avec sérieux et méthode. Pas à pas, il nous emmène plus loin. Merci et Bravo !"
10th June, 2009
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AmberVive "Une Imagination" says:
"Cuando entre a flickr uno de los primeros fotógrafos que aprecié fue a Joao, sería demasiado pretencioso para mi calificar su trabajo, solamente puedo decir, que me parece notable, y que es para mi un maestro del blanco y negro y también del color. Lo más notable de todo es que mantiene su infinita sencillez y calidez..como solo lo hacen los hombres realmente grandes."
26th April, 2008
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lia costa carvalho© says:
"Eu venho muitas, muitas vezes a este canto olhar as fotos do João...
As imagens do João despuletam sensações... há algo que eu sinto e não sei explicar...nem eu acho que deva ter qualquer explicação, são mesmo para sentir.
O jogo de foque/desfoque, que o João domina por completo, remete-me de imediato para o imaginário e eu gostaria mesmo é que tu, João, soubesses que teu trabalho em nada me deixa indiferente, pelo contrário... tu tens a marca registada de um olhar subjectivo, onírico, conceptual (nem sei qual adjectivo usar...) que é surpreendente, muito bonito de ver.
Que linda é esta tua forma de olhar!
Beijo grande e fica bem :-)"22nd April, 2008
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BB (O.ö) says:
"O João Batista é o fotógrafo mais "despassarado" que eu conheço.. perde-se em todo o lado... Mas ele consegue fazê-lo tão bem que nos leva por esse caminhos em descoberta de novos olhares, de novos mundos :))***"
17th September, 2007
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Glenbourne At Home says:
"A photographer never afraid to experiment. Joao Batista produces his images which are far from the conventional. It's always exciting to see how far Joao will go with his next image, but Joao never abandons good photographic principles for the sake of the unconventional alone. His works always displays strong composition, good lighting and exceptional tonal range and contrast.
Joao does produce some colour work but is generally regarded as mainly a monochrome worker. It's perhaps this which attracts me to Joao's work in the first place. The slightly unconventional monochrome image is an applealing one.
Well see what you think, and have a look at his photostream. I'm sure like myself, you will feel that it hasn't been time wasted."9th May, 2007
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Mono Andes says:
"Un maestro del blanco y negro, notables trabajos con los paisajes y naturaleza. Toda su galería está llena de belleza.
No se pueden perder esta maravilla!!!!"27th February, 2007
- Name:
- Joao Batista
- Joined:
- April 2006
- I am:
- Male and Taken

















