Architect Eduardo Souto de Moura often incorporated the idea of a beautiful future ruin, suggesting that buildings should be designed to gracefully integrate with the natural environment and eventually become part of the landscape’s history to be relevant to the present.
The architect understands that what is now a ruin was always created in the present, in the sense that it was both contemporary and in tension with something older.
So how can the photographer observe the ruins creating the same kind of tension?
Between the ruins I wondered what this tension meant. Adding and removing images, trial and error, dialogue and questions are all part of  a photographer’s creative process .
All the options are possible and we can’t have full control over the process.
Photography is a moment of creation that will only survive if contaminated by the present, like a Future Ruin.

“A photograph is the result of a series of decisions, the visual experience of it doesn’t come in words, we cannot explain it... it’s personal and abstract, like a future ruin.” (Josè Pedro Cortes)

Parco Archeologico di Selinunte, 2022
Project realised within the Master in Photography of the IUAV University, Venice.
Curated by José Pedro Cortes
In collaboration with Parco Archeologico di Selinunte