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Transcript of Book God Less America
God ’lessAmericaby Mr. Esgar
Traficantes IlimitadosAgosto 2010
Never thought of me as a photographer. In fact
for the last 20 years I’ve not even owned a
camera. The only reason for that was the fact that I
never had the skills to capture on film what I could
see... That’s why, early on my twenties, I decided just
to draw and paint and leave photography for those
who could explore it as an artistic expression.
In the summer of 2007 my friend António Luís,
who is aware of my long time passion for north
american pop culture icons and landscape, knew I
was traveling to the United States and gave me one
of his cameras. While driving me to the airport he
told me: “Man, don’t come back unless you bring
1000 photos!”. Still not thinking of me as a pho-
tographer, even with a camera on my hands after
almost 20 years, I couldn’t disappoint him. While
on the road, for 4 weeks and through 13 states, I
started shooting almost everything I saw and re-
turn to Portugal, with not 1000, but more than 4000
photos. I guess António Luís was very proud of me!
All those photos were kept on an hard drive for
almost an year, until I was invited by another friend,
valter hugo mãe, to post my works on his blog.
Thought that could be interesting to show some of
them to an audience beyond my friends so I’ve cho-
sen 99 photos to publish on a daily basis. (For this
book, I kept out some of them).
The initial idea for this series came from the title
of a LP released by Crypt Records: God ‘Less
America. As in the record, I’ve tried to choose not
postcards but a more “obscure” side of America; a
realistic “landscape” not as shown on Hollywood
movies or as you can shoot on touristic sites. Forget
the Statue of Liberty. Here you’ll find empty streets
and lonely people. The real America, not the blessed
by God.
Esgar Acelerado August, 2010
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All pictures by Esgar Acelerado (c) 2007www.mr-esgar.com
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(c) Traficantes IlimitadosAgosto 2010