Nozolino, P: bone lonely

A suite of thirty-two photographs by Nozolino accompanied by thirty-two poems by Rui Baião, bone lonely is ameditation on one of the most intense yet simultaneously subtle human states: loneliness. "A man stands in the middleof destruction, feeling unbelievably lonely. He makes deaf images during his blind walks. Dwelling with thoughts aboutthe loss in all conflicts, the feeling that all systems fail and the certainty that nothing lasts forever. He wonders whatlight shines in loneliness, what sounds come out of a moving body, what can fill the absence. He has no answers. Hesees silent panic, he hears reports on people, he smells the mould, he feels the flesh aging and he tastes the drysaliva in his mouth. There seems to be no escape. He has a word pounding inside his head: resist, resist... bonelonely."Paulo Nozolino was born in Lisbon in 1955, and lived in London and Paris before settling again in Portugal. He haspublished numerous books, many of his photographs of travels in Europe, the Middle East, and North and SouthAmerica. The most well known of these are Penumbra (1996), including images made in Syria, Yemen, Jordan, Egyptand Mauritania, and Far Cry (2005).