Alex Webb comments on his wanders through meridional countries and presents the series "Ex Mundus Novus" (in English - with consecutive translation to Portuguese)

Mediators: Christian Cravo and Ângela Berlinde

Alex Webb was born in São Francisco, the USA, in 1952. He became interested in photography while a graduate student. In 1972, he attended the Apeiron Photography Workshop (In Millerton, New York) where he met Bruce Davidson and Charles Harbutt (photographers who were at the time working for the Magnum agency). He studied History and Literature at Harvard University while also studying photography at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (a part of the same university). He started working as a photojournalist in 1974, and just two years later, he also joined the Magnum agency. Webb is one of the most extraordinary street photographers of our times. His photography is distinctive for its strong use of colour, play of light and shadow, and for the complexity of his images that walk the line between order and chaos: as if the addition of just one more element - any element - might break the elegance and intelligibility of his photography.