Title: Ambulantes
Artist: Patrick FraserAdditional contributor: Writer, Lara Wilson Townsend
Designer: Chris Segedy
Editor: Self edited
Imprint: Material Inc.
Printer: Puritan Capital, New Hampshire, USA
Publication date and place: September 2016 / New Hampshire, USA
Edition: 250 copies signed and numbered.
Format, binding: Softcover / Centre Singer sewn
Size: 22 x 28 cm
Number of pages and images: 32 pages / 15 images
Type of printing and paper: Digital HP Indigo / Cover paper: Mohawk Superfine Eggshell Ultrawhite #100 Inside paper: Mohawk Everyday Silk #100 text
Book Description: Portrait series of beach vendors in Florianopolis, Brazil.
Foreword text:
Translation: walking, traveling, wandering. It modifies the implied noun, “vendedores” in Portuguese, “vendors” in English. Ambulantes. The word seems especially at home on the Brazilian isle of Florianópolis, where Patrick Fraser found himself for two weeks at the conclusion of summer. Summer in Florianópolis falls in February because of the island’s position nearly 2,000 miles below the equator, and the season was just coming to a close. It was a last chance for the ambulantes–many of whom were merely passing through, from just about every corner of the world and for varying lengths of time–a last chance for them to squeeze out as many sales as possible before the beaches emptied of tourists and the days gradually became shorter and cooler.
Scraping by with a smile. The ambulantes’ mobile businesses are as eclectic as the people who run them, the same people who make up Brazil’s so-called ‘melting pot.’ They operate on foot, either rolling along a cart or cooler filled with water and beer that gets lighter as the day wears on, or carrying on one arm what boils down to a kitchen, like the woman called Elaine and the tiny charcoal oven she uses to melt slabs of cheese onto dripping-hot skewers. Some go the extra mile to stand out from the rest, like the churros sellerwho dons a Spiderman suit and the bikini man found modeling his wares. Others hawk towels, blankets, selfie sticks, thumb drives, clothing, hats, bathing suits, radios, and whatever else might be exchanged for a few Brazilian Reais as they make their way from one end of the beach to the other.In Patrick’s portraits, these details–the colors and characters that initially drew him in–are at first glance the primary focus. But behind his subjects’ expressions also linger conversations shared before the shutter was released–stories of livelihoods, families, origins, and of Brazil, articulated visually on the pages to come.
Book Featured on Self Publish Be Happy
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Book featured in MOPLA Photo Book Exhibition
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Title: Ambulantes
Artist: Patrick FraserAdditional contributor: Writer, Lara Wilson Townsend
Designer: Chris Segedy
Editor: Self edited
Imprint: Material Inc.
Printer: Puritan Capital, New Hampshire, USA
Publication date and place: September 2016 / New Hampshire, USA
Edition: 250 copies signed and numbered.
Format, binding: Softcover / Centre Singer sewn
Size: 22 x 28 cm
Number of pages and images: 32 pages / 15 images
Type of printing and paper: Digital HP Indigo / Cover paper: Mohawk Superfine Eggshell Ultrawhite #100 Inside paper: Mohawk Everyday Silk #100 text
Book Description: Portrait series of beach vendors in Florianopolis, Brazil.
Foreword text:
Translation: walking, traveling, wandering. It modifies the implied noun, “vendedores” in Portuguese, “vendors” in English. Ambulantes. The word seems especially at home on the Brazilian isle of Florianópolis, where Patrick Fraser found himself for two weeks at the conclusion of summer. Summer in Florianópolis falls in February because of the island’s position nearly 2,000 miles below the equator, and the season was just coming to a close. It was a last chance for the ambulantes–many of whom were merely passing through, from just about every corner of the world and for varying lengths of time–a last chance for them to squeeze out as many sales as possible before the beaches emptied of tourists and the days gradually became shorter and cooler.
Scraping by with a smile. The ambulantes’ mobile businesses are as eclectic as the people who run them, the same people who make up Brazil’s so-called ‘melting pot.’ They operate on foot, either rolling along a cart or cooler filled with water and beer that gets lighter as the day wears on, or carrying on one arm what boils down to a kitchen, like the woman called Elaine and the tiny charcoal oven she uses to melt slabs of cheese onto dripping-hot skewers. Some go the extra mile to stand out from the rest, like the churros sellerwho dons a Spiderman suit and the bikini man found modeling his wares. Others hawk towels, blankets, selfie sticks, thumb drives, clothing, hats, bathing suits, radios, and whatever else might be exchanged for a few Brazilian Reais as they make their way from one end of the beach to the other.In Patrick’s portraits, these details–the colors and characters that initially drew him in–are at first glance the primary focus. But behind his subjects’ expressions also linger conversations shared before the shutter was released–stories of livelihoods, families, origins, and of Brazil, articulated visually on the pages to come.
Book Featured on Self Publish Be Happy
https://selfpublishbehappy.com/2016/10/ambulantes-by-patrick-fraser/
Book featured in MOPLA Photo Book Exhibition
https://www.monthofphotography.com/mopla-photo-book-exhibition
