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BRASIL


2004

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BRASIL
2004

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

BRASIL 2009
Claudia et Felicia, 2004

Sertão de Minas, Brazil
Gouache on paper
42 x 66 cm

BRASIL 3022
Vaqueras de Sertão, 2004

Brazil
Silver print
96 x 72 cm

BRASIL 3024
Dayana et Guimarães Rosa, 2004

Sertão de Minas, Brazil
Gouache on paper
42 x 66 cm

BRASIL 3030
Marina de Tumucaque, 2004

Brasilia, Brazil
Gouache on paper
30 x 42 cm

BRASIL 3032
Meio ambiente, 2004

Brasilia, Brazil
Gouache on paper
42 x 32 cm

BRASIL 3028
O ministro, 2004

Brasilia, Brazil
Gouache enhanced silver print
30 x 24 cm

BRASIL 3034
Deuzilia Gauguin, 2004

Sertão de Goias, Brazil
Gouache enhanced silver print
48 x 37 cm

BRASIL 3036
Deuzilia, 2004

Sertão de Goias, Brazil
Gouache enhanced silver print
39 x 30 cm

BRASIL 3038
Kalunga, 2004

Sertão de Goias, Brazil
Gouache on paper
42 x 66 cm

BRASIL 3043
La katinga, 2004

Sertão de Goias, Brazil
Gouache on paper
30 x 42 cm

BRASIL 3450
Joana, 2004

Sertão de Goias, Brazil
Gouache enhanced silver print
24 x 30 cm

BRASIL 3452
Joana 2, 2004

Sertão de Goias, Brazil
Sepia turned silver print
50 x 40 cm

BRASIL 3041
Joana, mère des Kalungas, 2004

Sertão de Goias, Brazil
Gouache on paper
64 x 41 cm

BRASIL 3047
Sertão de Minas, 2004

Brazil
C-Print
105 x 175 cm

BRASIL 3045
Fille de Lia, 2004

Sertão de Minas, Brazil
Gouache on paper
42 x 33 cm

Maps

BRASIL 2007
Map of Brazil, 2004

Gouache on paper
80 x 120 cm

BRASIL 2008
Map of Sertão, 2004

Pencil on paper
46 x 37 cm

Books

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