Doors and windows to the world

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

The windows and doors of the world as seen by Goncalves

After the first window collages, a collection called Windows of the world and which brought public attention to it, 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 attracted to photography from the start. He initially studied computers at the University of Evora. In his second year of study he went to the University of Trento, Italy, for a year. Here, however, he realised that his real passion was 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.

Collages of doors and windows from different corners of the world force us to look at doors and windows differently. They are not just fittings in houses that we open and close without paying much attention to them. Through his works Goncalves tells us that sometimes they are works of art to be admired.

There is something else special in Goncalves' work. The collages show us our belonging to a people's culture, to their traditions, they practically show us the identity of the city or country where the photographs were taken.

The Portuguese artist also visited Romania. His works with Romanian doors make us look at houses with new 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 of the windows photographed in Brasov, I can say that they rival those in central Europe.