Time and geometry, held in restraint.

I use the image as a space for pause, where time and geometry work with restraint. Recording a place interests me less than understanding what remains in it once excess withdraws. Photography, for me, is the construction of meaning.

The work is marked by a restrained aesthetic and by the deliberate use of negative space: absence often weighs as much as presence. This thinking organises the research and unfolds into series photographed in Brazil, Portugal, Spain, the United States and Chile. A fine art photograph suggests, invites, leaves room.

2026 Brasília Photo Show, 11th edition, the largest photography festival in Latin America: two Honorable Mentions, for Mármore Vivo (Landscape) and O Edifício que Veste o Céu (Brasília category), and eight semifinalist works; ten works selected in the edition. Official record.

2025 reFocus Awards, World Photo Annual, a competition with entrants from more than one hundred countries: People’s Vote Award and Honorable Mention, Street, for Travessia Silenciosa (Silent Crossing); People’s Vote Award, Landscapes, for Echoes in the Vineyard; nominee with Explorer, photographed in Chicago.

2025 The Blue Space Gallery, United States, international exhibition and competition Earth Fire Air Water: third place for Echoes of Time.

2024 Brasília Photo Show, 10th edition: Honorable Mention for Travessia Silenciosa and three semifinalist works (Waves of the Earth, The Lightness of Concrete and Pause of the Atlantic); work exhibited at the Museu de Arte de Brasília.

2026 Patagônia, 28 works, and Glaciar Grey, 16 works, both in Torres del Paine National Park, in the far south of Chile; Los Lagos, 52 works in Chile’s Lakes Region, among volcanoes, fishing coves and Chiloé.

2026 A Geometria Humana, fifteen black and white street photographs made between New York, Chicago, Dallas, Key West, Lisbon, Seville and the Brazilian state of Maranhão.

Catalogue A Geometria do Silêncio, the body of landscape and architecture work photographed in Portugal, Spain, Brazil and the United States, from which the awarded works came, and the catalogue of 194 photographs in editions of 25.

Every print is made by me, in the studio, on Canson Infinity 100% cotton paper with Canon LUCIA PRO mineral pigment, on a Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-2100. Nothing is outsourced: I print, check, sign, number and pack.

The works exist in editions of 25 counted across all sizes, in three formats (30, 40 and 60 cm on the long side), with a signed certificate of authenticity. Paper, inks, timelines, shipping and returns are described on the Collect page; terms for designers, architects and hospitality, on the Trade page.

My name is Juan Carlo Jacques de Araujo; I sign the work as Juan Frota. I left São Luís as a boy and returned as an adult, after years in the United States and Australia. I studied hotel management; more than ten years of professional work span advertising, hospitality and authorial photography, in long-term projects on landscape and architecture. Moving between territories shaped the visual repertoire and the sense of scale.

Publications: A Geometria do Silêncio, a book and visual manifesto on time and perception; Contraluz, volume 1 of the Série Técnica, a digital guide to backlight photography. Work featured by 121clicks. The full list of awards, with the works and official records, is on the Awards page.

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For interviews, high-resolution images, wall texts and press requests, write to contato@juanfrota.art. To acquire a work, the gallery is open; for projects and groups of works, see the Trade page. I answer personally.