Carlos Cazalis Analysis

Carlos Cazallis is a Spanish Photographer, designer, and -lnkmaker who grew up in five different countries in North and South America.

He first began photographing at the age of 14 in Argentina.He Then pursued a degree in Marine Biology at the University of Miami in 1987. After a 23-year absence from Mexico he returned and started working for a local newspaper and freelancing with Agence France-Presse until 1999 when he was decided to study more at  Parsons School of Design this is where he completed his MFA in Digital Design. Soon after he returned back to Mexico in 2004 to photograph and has been documenting world events in over 15 countries ever since. His main focus has been on human rights and habitat issues.

In 2005 Cazallis began photographing in downtown Sao Paulo, Brazil documenting habitat issues. It was here he found an abandoned textile factory which had become home to around 483 families.This was to be his start of The Urban Meta project.The project adresses the consequences of urban growth, it does thus through revealing  photographs documenting things such as environmental damage and mass urban growth. Since 2005 the project has gone onto Osaka, Tehran.

holds a collection of the largests mansions in town and a few high class residentials buildings. It is also home to the State governor.

 This is a photograph by cazallis, its a very sticking and slightly  heartbreaking photograph when the context is taken aboard.Here in this photograph features two young girls, young toddlers even sitting on the hard stony ground eating oranges. From the source where i obtained this picture they described this picture as "Children from a slum district eating oranges picked from the wealthy Morumbi area.Morumbi is a district of the city of São Paulo belonging to the subprefecture of Butantã, in the southwestern part of the city.

It holds a collection of the largests mansions in town and a few high class residentials buildings. It is also home to the State governor. So in actual fact Morumbi is quite a wealthy country which makes this picture that much horrid. I also like the manipulation Cazallis has done in this piece he has increased the contrast and darkened the brightness to make these children the subject of the photograph.

This photograph is more common when browsing the works of Cazallis. This is a city scape picture of the city of brazil. Again here Cazallis has used a increased contrast and dark brightness.The shadows of the buildings on this photograph is also very nice, the photograph being captured this way really makes the city seem urban and gritty.

In Brazil most Brazilians live in cities – 138 million, as opposed to 32 million who live outside the cities. The biggest cities are in the South East, with São Paulo having a population of over 19 million people and Rio de Janeiro over 11 million.The common place for housing in brazil is in high flats or apartments. This picture really captures the contrast between wealth on the lower portion of the image we have raggedy buildings with pieces of steel used for roofs, the the left distance a football pitch can be seen which is again associated with poor brazilian children.The juxtaposition of these old building and newer flats links into the theme of growth and evolution well as it shows growth and development.

Overall I like Cazalli's style of documenting the change in mexico and other urban countries and i especially like the way he has started with something personal begin his hometown and evolved from there on.