MADS MIL@NO PHOTO AWARD CATA DEF

André Mascarenhas
“All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.” (Gabriel García Márquez)
André Mascarenhas is a Brazilian-American photographer who lives and works in Berlin. He choose street
photography to express his vision of the world. In this photograph he captures a very particular fragment of
everyday life. Our eyes do not meet those of a person on the street, as often happens in this photographic genre,
but those of a dog in a parked car. The way he looks at us raises several questions because it is not just any gaze,
but rather something that calls our attention in a visceral way. The windows become like mirrors that reflect
the surrounding world. This dog seems to observe the outside world like from the inside a of a bubble. While
we are out in the world caught up in our routine, work and responsibilities, he is alone in the silence of that car,
observing and intimidating us. We only see him and we can barely distinguish what is inside his bubble. The
glass acts as a shield to the outside world. It seems to want to tell us not to forget our intimacy and so to be
swallowed up by the frenzy of everyday life. It reminds us of the importance of the warmth of the environment
in which we retire when the day comes to an end. That space for ourselves that no one can enter at all.
Art Curator Francesca Brunello