Sertão
“When I fell pregnant for the first time, I wasn’t yet 18. It was like a bomb exploding on top of me! A real scandal! But all my sadness and rage vanished when my daughter was born.” Lia
Abstracts
"In Morro da Garça, it was the week of the election of the 'queen of the fields' and the week of the yearly forró. The time of the village festival, the finest in all of Sertão des Minas. At dawn on the big day, we constructed a type of open-air studio using the tarpaulins of travelling vendors, in the middle of the village square. The mayor’s wife steered the candidates, one after the other, to our studio, as soon as they were ready for the parade.
In this way, a sample of country people, representative of this Brazilian 'pure mix' so dear to Stefan Zweig, filed in front of my camera lens. That evening, we also met Lia and her daughter Melane: one brunette like an Andalusian and the other blonde. Melane had been elected queen at the festival five years earlier and her pretty mother, a few years beforehand."
Extract from Zoé Zoé, Femmes du mondes, 2007, Éditions Gallimard
Works
Sertão de Minas, Brazil
Gouache on paper
42 x 66 cm
Brazil
Silver print
96 x 72 cm
Sertão de Minas, Brazil
Gouache on paper
42 x 66 cm
Brasilia, Brazil
Gouache on paper
30 x 42 cm
Brasilia, Brazil
Gouache on paper
42 x 32 cm
Brasilia, Brazil
Gouache enhanced silver print
30 x 24 cm
Sertão de Goias, Brazil
Gouache enhanced silver print
48 x 37 cm
Sertão de Goias, Brazil
Gouache enhanced silver print
39 x 30 cm
Sertão de Goias, Brazil
Gouache on paper
42 x 66 cm
Sertão de Goias, Brazil
Gouache on paper
30 x 42 cm
Sertão de Goias, Brazil
Gouache enhanced silver print
24 x 30 cm
Sertão de Goias, Brazil
Sepia turned silver print
50 x 40 cm
Sertão de Goias, Brazil
Gouache on paper
64 x 41 cm
Brazil
C-Print
105 x 175 cm
Sertão de Minas, Brazil
Gouache on paper
42 x 33 cm
Maps
Gouache on paper
80 x 120 cm
Pencil on paper
46 x 37 cm
