https://ronaldansbach.cargo.site Ronald Ansbach Photography Mon, 19 Feb 2018 20:14:19 +0000 https://ronaldansbach.cargo.site en https://ronaldansbach.cargo.site/Homepage Thu, 30 Nov 2017 18:47:51 +0000 Ronald Ansbach Photography https://ronaldansbach.cargo.site/Homepage Ronald Ansbach Photography "The city is a discourse and this discourse is truly a language: the city speaks to its inhabitants, we speak our city, the city where we are, simply by living in it, by wandering through it, by looking at it." Roland Barthes   https://ronaldansbach.cargo.site/Sampa Thu, 30 Nov 2017 12:14:06 +0000 Ronald Ansbach Photography https://ronaldansbach.cargo.site/Sampa Sampa  SAMPA is an ongoing photographic project focused on the urban form of São Paulo. São Paulo twice destroyed and reconstructed itself in the last 150 years, and after World War II experienced voracious growth, becoming a rich, contradictory and complex metropolis that managed to retain a degree of formal coherence up until the early sixties. The decades that followed saw a rapid and continuing erosion of spatial clarity with the massive production of self-referential buildings, devoid of context. The ensuing formal and programmatic reductionism pervades architectural practice in Brazil to this day, and reinforces the incapacity of the state to adequately mediate the production of space. Thus Brazilians have grown accustomed to residual and dilapidated public spaces and have in turn compensated for this by first abandoning, and later internalizing the public realm, privatizing it within the boundaries of private condominiums.  The accelerated economic growth of recent years has revealed the utter obsolescence of the automobile-centric model of urban mobility, and calls for urgent and radical solutions and interventions on multiple fronts. It is in the midst of this mobility crisis that a major opportunity presents itself for São Paulo to revert its decay, and take possession of itself, so to speak. Negating the city is no longer possible. SAMPA é um projeto fotográfico centrado na forma urbana de São Paulo. Nos últimos 150 anos, duas São Paulos distintas se sucederam, cada uma borrando a anterior, como palimpsestos. A São Paulo que cresceu vorazmente no pós-guerra e se transformou numa enorme e complexa metrópole, reteve certo nível de coerência formal urbana até o início dos anos 60. As décadas que se seguiram registraram uma rápida deterioração do seu tecido urbano, causada, entre outras coisas, pela fixação das gerações de arquitetos pós-Brasília por formas plásticas de fácil apreensão e pela busca de virtuosismo estrutural como um fim em si mesmo, resultando na produção massiva de objetos auto-referentes, desgrudados de contexto. Esse reducionismo formal e programático imperou e ainda impera na produção arquitetônica brasileira de hoje, e paralelamente reforça um marco regulatório funcionalista e simplório, equilibrado fragilmente entre o oportunismo corrupto dos políticos e a maximização de potenciais construtivos. Como consequência, a rua se reduziu a mero vaso comunicante e o universo do coletivo acabou privatizado, intramuros. À medida que a economia volta a crescer fica claro que o modelo de mobilidade baseado no automóvel está esgotado e exige respostas e intervenções urgentes e radicais, em múltiplas frentes. É a partir desta crise ambiental e de mobilidade que surge a grande oportunidade de São Paulo reverter sua trajetória declinante e apropriar-se de si mesma. A negação da cidade já não é mais possível. https://ronaldansbach.cargo.site/Tokyo Thu, 30 Nov 2017 12:14:07 +0000 Ronald Ansbach Photography https://ronaldansbach.cargo.site/Tokyo Tokyo https://ronaldansbach.cargo.site/London Thu, 30 Nov 2017 12:14:08 +0000 Ronald Ansbach Photography https://ronaldansbach.cargo.site/London London https://ronaldansbach.cargo.site/The-Gardiner Wed, 27 Dec 2017 21:54:34 +0000 Ronald Ansbach Photography https://ronaldansbach.cargo.site/The-Gardiner The Gardiner The Gardiner Expressway was one of the first projects undertaken by the newly formed government of Metro Toronto, built in segments from 1955 until 1964. It has since acted as a major physical barrier between the city and its waterfront, together with the Railway Lands, a wide rail corridor along the edge of lake Ontario. Starting in the 1990s, with new large scale redevelopments being approved by the city for the Railway Lands and the Harbourfront, several proposals have been made to dismantle or replace the central elevated section. Lack of municipal funds and political will have repeatedly stalled such plans. This photographic exercise attempts to show how the structure of the expressway and the city at a pedestrian level have become more and more intertwined over time, suggesting new spatial and programmatic opportunities made possible by this often very interesting “edge condition”. https://ronaldansbach.cargo.site/SP-Acropole Fri, 01 Dec 2017 13:31:29 +0000 Ronald Ansbach Photography https://ronaldansbach.cargo.site/SP-Acropole SP Acrópole https://ronaldansbach.cargo.site/The-Great-Drought-A-Grande-Seca Fri, 01 Dec 2017 13:56:22 +0000 Ronald Ansbach Photography https://ronaldansbach.cargo.site/The-Great-Drought-A-Grande-Seca BOOK/LIVRO The Great Drought/A Grande Seca The Great Drought is a circular, imaginary perambulation through the city of São Paulo, assembled from juxtapositions that reveal a self-devouring city in constant mutation. The book is an exploration into the generic, global city, suspended between its physical presence and its image. A Grande Seca é um percurso circular e imaginário pela cidade de São Paulo, construído a partir de justaposições que revelam sua natureza autofágica e em constante mutação. É também uma investigação sobre a cidade genérica e global, suspensa entre sua presença física e sua imagem. ISBN 978-85-65709-11-8 Concept and Photography/ Conceito e Fotografia: Ronald Ansbach Editorial Coordination/ Coordenação Editorial: Iatã Cannabrava Graphic Design/ Projeto Gráfico: Ekaterina Kholmogorova Publisher: Editora Madalena e Editora Terceiro Nome Buy at Amazon https://ronaldansbach.cargo.site/Nederlands Fri, 12 Jan 2018 20:31:34 +0000 Ronald Ansbach Photography https://ronaldansbach.cargo.site/Nederlands Nederlands https://ronaldansbach.cargo.site/Bio Tue, 06 Feb 2018 13:38:18 +0000 Ronald Ansbach Photography https://ronaldansbach.cargo.site/Bio About me I was born in Ponta Grossa, Brazil. Moved to Canada in 1981 to study Architecture at the University of Toronto and subsequently worked for many years as an architect and developer in numerous projects in Brazil, Canada, Mexico and Malaysia. In 2006 I shifted my focus to photography as a means to investigate and document space and urban form, in particular the rapid transformation of urban landscapes on a global scale. In 2015 I published The Great Drought, a photobook centred on the city of São Paulo and its public space. I am currently working on a new photobook that has at its starting point the Peabiru, an ancient network of pre-Columbian Indian routes across Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia and Peru.   Nasci em Ponta Grossa, Paraná. Me mudei para o Canadá em 1981 para estudar arquitetura e, após me formar pela Universidade de Toronto, trabalhei muitos anos como arquiteto e incorporador, envolvido em projetos no Brasil, Canadá, México e Malásia. A partir de 2006 passei a concentrar-me na fotografia como meio para investigar e documentar o espaço e a forma urbana, focando em particular nas transformações das paisagens urbanas em escala global. Em 2015 publiquei A Grande Seca, um fotolivro sobre a cidade de São Paulo e seus espaços públicos. Estou atualmente trabalhando no projeto de um novo fotolivro, que terá como ponto de partida o Peabiru, antiga rede de caminhos indígenas que cruzavam a América do Sul entre Brasil, Argentina, Paraguai, Bolívia e Peru.   https://ronaldansbach.cargo.site/Contact Mon, 19 Feb 2018 20:14:19 +0000 Ronald Ansbach Photography https://ronaldansbach.cargo.site/Contact Ronald AnsbachRua dos Tamanás 586Vila MadalenaSão Paulo SP  Brazil  05444-010  ransbach@uol.com.br