‘The speeding car created the perfect, eclectic scene’: Demétrio Jereissati’s greatest cellphone image | Pictures

As a marathon runner and novice photographer, Demétrio Jereissati has taken to the streets of his dwelling city of Fortaleza, Brazil virtually each day for the previous twenty years. “Each morning I head out early for a run – observing and storing the city in my memory,” Jereissati says. “Every day reveals new angles and unexpected scenes. For me, these early hours are an exercise in truly seeing.”

When he took this picture, in 2019, he was visiting Havana, Cuba, with mates. He headed out alone at 6am to run and as he approached the waterfront Malecón promenade, the rising solar forged a glow on the town beneath, and this constructing caught his eye. “I was drawn by the distinctive architectural lines and windows, and its condition,” he notes. “All these old, majestic buildings framed people beginning to fill the streets, and classic cars cruising back and forth.”

He took a number of pictures on his cellphone, making an attempt to seize the younger man in pink shorts passing by, when he was shocked by a dashing automobile of the identical color getting into the body. “It created the perfect, eclectic scene,” Jereissati says. “When I shoot, I try to weave together my own personal vision of a place, and this shot did just that. Later, we headed to the rural town of Viñales, where tobacco is the main protagonist, but my memory of this scene, and the Cuba it captures, never fades.”