The Urge of Living
Alberto Polo Photo-cards or a small street corner

or a small street corner

写真家として５０年以上活動しているのですが、私のスタイルとしてほとんどをモノクロームで撮影してきました。モノクロが持つ特徴として、光、構図、人々の表情が色彩が無いことで強調されるのですがカラーで撮らねばと思う時が２回ありました。

I have had a good time in the city where I used to take many photographs when I was young after so many years’ absence

Although this work has been nearly abandoned for the past 35 years

The Urge of Living<br />Alberto Polo Photo-cards or a small street cornerAssembled as a visual diary of sort, The Urge of Living is the result of over ten years in the making, working with the archive and shaping an emotional body of work out of mixing the photographic memories captured for a large twenty plus years period of skateboarding subculture documentation as a professional skate photographer. Skateboarders and anonymous teenage skate rats, daily routines on the road, landscapes and urban sights, accidental street