Frutas Fantasma “Ghost Fruits”

Frutas Fantasma explores abandoned roadside fruit stalls in Portugal and what remains after the trade has gone. Once filled with ripe summer fruit, these structures stood between the harvest and the passing traffic. Now their empty shells are slowly deteriorating, becoming waste in the landscape.

I photograph them in winter, when the rain and absence of fruit expose the structures themselves. Built to hold something seasonal and perishable, they have outlasted what they once sold. The fruit, the sellers and the customers are gone.