Edson Chagas: Found Not Taken Category_Print & Negative Sleeves securely mount any camera weighing

securely mount any camera weighing up to 4 lbs

A nine-blade circular aperture works with this lens’s state-of-the-art optics to create beautifully smooth bokeh in out-of-focus background areas when desired

while continually pursuing new frontiers

While serving as an important review of the artist’s work to date

offering the finest performance in a mid to telephoto zoom focal range

Edson Chagas: Found Not Taken Category_Print & Negative Sleeves securely mount any camera weighingFor Found Not Taken, Chagas walked through the streets of Luanda, London and Newport, collecting discarded objects and moving them, at times slightly and in other instances significantly, before photographing them. Taken out of their context and photographed in relation to a carefully chosen background, the mundane items are turned into abstract icons that animate the city. What might seem at first glance a symbol of a society characterized by waste