Doors and windows to the world

Photographer Andre Vicente Goncalves, from Portugal, manages to capture the beauty of places through collages of doors and windows he photographs. She has always had an obsession with windows and realized that they give personality to houses, being different depending on the region.

Windows and doors to the world as seen by Goncalves

After the first window collages, a collection called Windows of the world and which drew public attention to itself, Andre highlighted the beauty and uniqueness of doors in different cities in Europe and around the world with the project Doors of the world.

Goncalves was not drawn to photography from the start. He initially studied computers at the University of Evora. In his second year he went for a year at the University of Trento, Italy. But there he realized that his true passion was something else - photography. He interrupted his studies and applied for a degree in photography at Lusophone University of Humanities and Technology In making this choice he learned the meaning of the words attributed to Confucius: choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Door and window collages from different corners of the world force us to look at doors and windows differently. They are not just accessories in our homes that we open and close without paying much attention to them. Goncalves' work tells us that sometimes they are works of art to be admired.

There is something else that is special about Goncalves' work. The collages show us a people's culture, their traditions, they practically show us the identity of the city or country where the photos were taken.

The Portuguese artist also visited Romania. His works with doors in Romania make us look at houses with different eyes, forcing us to look for those doors that look so good in his collages. In the window collage I discovered a different Bucharest - beautiful, clean, elegant. And about the windows photographed in Brasov, I can say that they rival those of central Europe.