Photography and solitude - Alone with a camera, the photographer's existence is a solitary one. Though they may interact with their subjects and surroundings, much of the work made by documentary and street photographers requires a great deal of patience, silence and observation. This practice is best reserved for the wanderer.

Marcel Gautherot was a French photographer whose photojournalistic work focused primarily, and most iconically, on architectural projects, almost exclusively in his adopted country of Brazil, from 1940 onwards.