Desperate Self-Portrait

Humberto Rivas was an Argentine photographer whose black-and-white practice focused on urban landscapes, intimate domestic interiors, and portraiture rendered with restrained formal precision. Working primarily in the decades following Argentina's political upheavals, his work maintained a cool, documentary sensibility while exploring the textures and geometries of inhabited space. His photographs eschewed sentimentality in favor of a measured, almost austere visual language.

Buenos Aires, Argentina