Confrontation or complicity? A portrait of the known or the unknown? Photography critic Stefania Bril begins one of her texts about Cravo Neto with these two questions that explain the inherent tension in these black-and-white photographs. Perhaps we could replace the disjunction with conjunction. It is at once one and the other. The construction of these portraits against an infinity cove is at the core of Cravo Neto’s poetic photography. They hold the sculptural interest in the gravity of bodies and the photographer’s interest in the details of body expression. Light and atmosphere. Monumentality. The gaze fluctuates between restraint and helplessness.
—L.C.O.