Fortaleza is a Brazilian city with more than 2,500,000 inhabitants and a density of 7,786.44 hab/km², the highest demographic density among Brazilian capitals (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics [IBGE], 2010). It also ranks among the top ten urban metropolises in the country (IBGE, 2018). We are a port marked by profound inequality shown in the differences observed in the human development index (HDI; Fundação Demócrito Rocha, 2021), where the Meireles neighbourhood has 0.953 -higher than Norway (0.944), which ranks first in the worldand the Praia do Futuro II neighbourhood hits 0.167 -lower than that of Niger (0.348), ranked last in the world.The centre is part of Fortaleza and, as an element of a Brazilian metropolis, is permeated by different interests that see it as an invented destination in the composition of the postcard built for the tourism market, to the detriment of the daily dynamics that articulate and animate urban space. This research, facing the friction of imagery on the territory and awareness of the place of imagery produced in the construction of social memory, is developed in field action-oriented in bonds of proximity (Magnani, 2008) to take notes and constitute photographic inscriptions. From these bonds, based on the teachings of Martins (2016), the goal is to compose visual poetics about the space in dispute.