Verdade, ficção e os fios de um enlinhado na fotografia

O ensaio fotográfico resulta de uma pesquisa de campo iniciada em 2013. Traz imagens sobre a vida em localidades rurais de dois pequenos municípios do sertão cearense. O objetivo do ensaio é de descrever o enlinhado de uma vida necessariamente mais-que-humana.Palavras chave: Sertão cearense. Imagens. Narrativas. Trabalho. Fotografia. Truth, fiction and the threads of a lined in photography Abstract: The photographic essay is the result of field research that began in 2013. It brings images about life in rural areas of two small municipalities in the interior of Ceará. The aim of the essay is to describe the outline of a necessarily more-than-human life.Keywords: Backlands of Ceará. Images. Narratives. Work. Photography.

People of the Mangrove: A Lens into Socioecological Interactions in the Ecuadorian Black Pacific

Adapted to survive in the interface between land and sea, mangroves are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. They are also highly adaptive to the imagination, with the theme of the mangrove being differently signified across texts, languages and communities as a place to find death in the tropics, a nature tourism destination, endangered environment, magical wood, refuge for maroons and revolutionaries, and source of livelihoods. The cultural malleability of mangroves mirrors their natural adaptability. It also echoes the varied and rhizomatic identities and imaginaries of the peoples of the tropical Americas. Relevant cultural texts produced in the region support experimentations with mangroves as a raw material susceptible to being worked in order to explain diverse realities. In order to highlight the relevance and malleability of mangrove ecosystems, this paper explores resignifications of socioecological interactions at the Ecological Mangrove Reserve Cayapas-Mataje in Ecuador through the lens of photographer Felipe Jácome. Jácome’s photographic essay Los Reyes del Manglar [The Kings of the Mangrove] provides rich material to study the rhizomatic evolution of the theme of the mangrove and its entanglements with people’s lives, cultures and histories. I argue that cultural representations of mangroves can go beyond their metaphorical recovery to support environmental justice. This essay is also informed by extant research on the important role of mangrove forests for carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation, which locates these socioecological systems at the centre of people’s struggle for climate justice.

'Quiet Dream': Vietnamese women and marriage migration

ABSTRACT The photographic essay, 'Quiet Dream', by photographer and lecturer Oh Soon-Hwa, represents the culmination of years of work with young Vietnamese women during a "bride phase" in Vietnam, which refers to a period of waiting before leaving home and kin to travel overseas in order to marry foreign men, usually in Taiwan and South Korea. This series was taken on and around a small island in the region of the Mekong Delta (one of the poorest areas in Vietnam), nicknamed "Taiwan Island", where many young women are pressured to marry foreigners for various complex reasons, which the author discusses. Oh's photographic essay focuses on the beauty and serenity of the environment surrounding these women while they have to deal with diverse expectations, which includes leaving behind part of their identity, the familiar landscape, climate, language, family, friends, traditions, and way of living. Until recently, studies on marriage migration have tended to focus on remittances and the economic impact of migration. New studies adopt a more comprehensive social perspective, examining the effects of migration on the social fabric of the migrants' home community. Placed in the context of these ongoing studies, Oh's work is important in drawing attention to the lives and identities of these women (what they give up) before entering into marriage migration. My article focuses on two aspects of Oh's photographs: 1) the technique of stitched photography; and 2) the compo-sition of the photograph, particularly the choice of dress worn by the subject. Half of the portraits are stitched photographs, which is a technique that merges together several photographs to form a unique piece, with the aim of providing a wider view of the environment of the subject. This method of stitching also bears testimony to the stitched futures of these women; the hopes and dreams they harbour as foreign brides, as well as the familiar landscapes and identities they leave behind, all "stitched" together as it were, to constitute a hopeful, but also unsure, resigned and imagined future. Keywords: cross-border marriage, ocular ethic, Oh Soon-Hwa, re-visioning, vision as critique.

A Cultura na Trilha dos Guaianás - Uma Inspiração Etnofotográfica no Caminho do Ouro

Resumo: Este ensaio fotográfico inspira-se na Etnofotografia proposta pelo arquiteto e fotógrafo italiano Sandro Spini. As fotos e o texto de abertura da chamada Trilha Guaianá, que compõe a chamada Estrada Real ou Caminho do Ouro. Percorrer Trilha Guaianá através de imagens permite explorar o imaginário das relações entre o passado e o presente das populações pré-colombianas e da colonização europeia e significa experimentar um percurso de ritmos e referências espaciais dissonantes com a experiência de vida moderna.Palavras-chave: Caminho do Ouro. Trilha dos Guaianás. Etnofotografia CULTURE IN THE TRAIL OF THE GUAIANÁS - AN ETNOPHOTOGRAPHICAL INSPIRATION IN THE "CAMINHO DO OURO" Abstract: This photographic essay is inspired by the Etnophotography method proposed by the Italian architect and photographer Sandro Spini. The photos and the opening text address the Guaianá Trail, which makes up the "Estrada Real" (Royal Road) or “Caminho do Ouro" (Gold Way). Walking the Guaianá Trail through images allows to explore the imaginary of the relations between the past and the present of pre-Columbian populations and European colonization and means experiencing a journey of rhythms and spatial references that distune with the experience of modern life.Keywords: Caminho do Ouro. Guaianá Trail. Etnophotography

Armfuls of Eclectic Pieces: Poetic-Photographic Essay

As a writer and poet, I am particularly interested in language(s), in words in Tahitian and in French. Since 2016, I have explored themes of survival, duration, continuity, and transmission through poetry and artworks made of materials evoking cracks, fractures, disruption, remains, remnants, separation, and loss. In this poetic-photographic essay, I reflect on my creative process and show how Tahitian concepts, such as HU’A, HU’AHU’A, HI’O, HI’OHI’O, GLASS, MIRROR, and ITE, SIGHT, KNOWLEDGE, WITNESS have inspired my artworks. I explore how the elements I collected and transformed are both a mirror of society and an invitation to create new images and ideas. I also highlight the importance of – establishing a dialogue between French and – Tahitian and other Indigenous languages for conceptualising the arts and creativity.

Ensaio da Vida e Morte de um Porco Caipira: Abate e Manipulação

Resumo: O presente ensaio fotográfico acontece no processo de manipulação de um porco de trezentos quilos, após o abate. Os procedimentos que envolvem desde o corte à extração da banha, do couro e à fabricação da linguiça, do chouriço e do codeguim são realizados por uma família de agricultores e trabalhadores do campo, junto a amigos e vizinhos e servem de sustento para cerca de dez pessoas deste círculo, além dos outros participantes do sistema de troca de alimentos. O cenário é de uma comunidade rural no município de Ubiratã, região centro ocidental paranaense, de aproximadamente cento e trinta famílias, chamada São João, em que os moradores ainda possuem criações domésticas para o próprio consumo. A autora, membro da família, os acompanhou durante os quase três dias na intenção de ilustrar, para além das palavras, um momento bastante importante no ciclo do ano para os moradores do local na obtenção e manipulação de alimento.Palavras-chave: Abate. Manipulação. Animal. Alimento ESSAY OF THE LIFE AND DEATH OF A COUNTRY PIG: SLAUGHTER AND HANDLING Abstract: This photographic essay takes place in the process of handling a three-hundred-pound pig after slaughter. Procedures that range from cutting to lard, leather and sausage, chorizo and cod-nut production are carried out by a family of farmers and field workers, along with friends and neighbors, and support about ten people. people in this circle, as well as other participants in the food exchange system. The scenario is of a rural community in the municipality of Ubiratã, central western region of Paraná, of approximately one hundred and thirty families, called São João, where residents still have domestic livestock for their own consumption. The author, a member of the family, accompanied them for almost three days in order to illustrate, in addition to the words, a very important moment in the cycle of the year for local residents in obtaining and handling food.Keywords: Slaughter. Handling. Animal. Food