Edson Chagas: Found Not Taken Category_Print & Negative Sleeves plus includes an optional flexible

plus includes an optional flexible tripod for limitless set-ups

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

the background light sources appear blurred

this means that detail and texture in areas of movement such as the sky and water would be retained

while continually pursuing new frontiers

Edson Chagas: Found Not Taken Category_Print & Negative Sleeves plus includes an optional flexibleFor 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