The overflowing of the Una River with the high rainfall, left the city in a state of public calamity. A few months after that fateful period, the expedition with photographers and other artists arrived in the city of Palmares. Some of the staff set up an exhibition of Ricardo Peixoto in the public square, Diabolin put on circus performances and the renowned photojournalist Evandro Teixeira walked with the group of photographers.
This is the first text I talk about this series, and also the first series I made. And it's interesting to think about it, and review this place, because when I look back and think about how it started, it's at the same time looking at the beginning of my journey.
It is common to see groups of people playing capoeira in Olinda, whether in Alto da Sé or on the beach... but when I went to Barcelona, I didn't imagine seeing it, especially during the first walk to Iemanjá in the Catalan city. It was like being at home. I already had the Veste Branco project in progress, and I photographed the capoeira circles because they were part of that procession, which at times was stopped for some people from capoeira groups made up of Brazilians and Spaniards from the city. When I went back and looked at the images calmly, some were kind of abstract, the bodies looked amorphous, and I wanted to try more of this other way of seeing the body. Be it multiple, or deconstructed, cut, recreated. So I'd like to share some of these images, and their ramifications.
Fiz Faculdade de Fotografia em 2007, na Universidade de Caxias do Sul/RS. Se eu conhecia alguém naquela cidade? não. Conhecia alguém no Rio Grande do Sul? não. Conhecia alguém na região sul do país? não. Mas tinha o Orkut, e em uma comunidade especifica do curso, mandei mensagens pra alguns alunos e professores, pedindo informações, opniões sobre o curso e coisas assim.
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This pandemic came to challenge us in several ways, provoking various sensations, readapting our modus operandi, where we need to be isolated from each other, which brings the idea of a cocoon, we are changing ...
I decided to experiment in a very unpretentious way to draw on the tablet, I started doing it on top of copyrighted photographs - of projects that I have already published, without the pen and, after some tendonitis I decided to buy one and since then I have used a lot of my time making this one experience a practice.
Paraty em Foco is one of the largest photography festivals in the country and takes place annually in the city of Paraty in Rio de Janeiro. And I was very happy to be a Finalist in the Prize and be part of the exhibition at the festival in 2019.