The Journey, episode 2: Born to preserve
The Journey and photographer Maristela Colucci visited two projects for nature preservation in southern Brazil. The Franca Austral Project was created to ensure the survival of the species that nearly became extinct in the 1980s. Today, those who visit Santa Catarina in winter can witness a spectacle of southern right whales, which come to the coast during their reproductive season.
From there, we went to learn about an initiative that combines the preservation of the native Araucaria forest with the development of local commerce, connecting small producers to companies that value products resulting from sustainable and conscious extraction of natural resources.
In a changing world, attitudes that transform the world.
Group Exhibitions at Tato Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
In November, participating in the collective exhibition "From 100 to 1,000" with 4 Metacrilato pieces from the photo essay "Floating".
In March of the same year, featured in the "Re.gis.tro" exhibition with the artwork "São Paulo, a chaotic view of the city or a view of the chaotic city".
Revista Brasileira / Brazilian Academy of Letters
Phase I of the Brazilian Journal began in 1857, but one could say there was a Phase Zero, initiated in 1855. Many years later, Phase VIII commenced in the first quarter of 2012 under the direction of Marco Lucchesi.
A complete collection of the Revista Brasileira is housed at the Archive-Museum of Brazilian Literature of the Casa de Rui Barbosa Foundation, which organized and published the index of the Revista Brasileira's first six phases. A microfilmed collection is also available at the Information and Documentation Division of the National Library.
This is the April/May/June 2017 edition.
Photo Invasion, Red Bull Station
The Floating photo essay selected for projection at the artistic occupation Red Bull Station in downtown São Paulo.
Photothings Meetings
A chat with curator and art critic Paulo Klein about the appropriation and manipulation of images.
Buscador (Searcher) (e-book)
In the analog era, editing a contact was an intimate and often lonely act. We photographers were, after the laboratory technicians, the first to see that material, with great expectation. At that moment ended what Joan Fontcuberta defines as "the wait for uncertainty – the time between the shooting and the developed photos – which covered both hopes and fears."
Are there also hopes and fears in the photographer when searching for himself on Google?
BUSCADOR starts from a provocation to some colleagues: I proposed to the invited photographers that they make contact with something equally intimate, at first – their work, their own image –, but already seen by countless people and already edited by the often ruthless, sometimes accurate, other times unaware, Google.
In the e-book available in https://issuu.com/graoeditora/docs/buscador_organizacao_mcolucci the reader finds the definitive edition of each photographer, as well as reports on the various sensations generated by the proposal.
Invited photographers: Ana Carolina Fernandes, Caio Vilela, Carlos Ebert, Clício Barroso Filho, Eustáquio Neves, Fernando Costa Netto, Guy Veloso, Juan Esteves, Louise Chin e Ignacio Aronovich (Lost Art), Luciano Candisani, Lucille Kanzawa, Miriam Homem de Mello, Paulo Fridman, Penna Prearo, Rogério Assis, Tuca Reinés.
11º Festivalma
Photographs that report and denounce waste, pollution, and mistreatment of the beach and nature, while promoting sustainability and ecology, are exhibited at the Pavilion of Brazilian Cultures, a museum inaugurated in 2010 at Ibirapuera Park in São Paulo. The collective exhibition is curated by Fernando Costa Neto/DOC Galeria.
Mira Mobile Prize
Photo selected in the MIRA Mobile Prize 2015 - STREETS OF THE WORLD. Collective exhibition from May 11 to June 13 at Espaço MIRA, Porto, Portugal.
The book can be purchased at https://www.blurb.com/b/6244222-streets-of-the-world
Ensaio It's raining red people (and I feel good) em giro por exposições coletivas internacionais
Exhibitions Hybrid Memories - BAC Gallery - Contemporary Art Bogota, Colombia / Contemporary Venice - Palazzo Flangini, Venezia, Italy/ Bangkok International Experimental Video ARt Festival - The Ferry Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
5th Foto em pauta - Tiradentes Photography festival
Part of the photo essay (work in progress) I Remember - Latent Dialogues, Essential Affections selected by curators Juan Esteves, Alexandre Belém and Georgia Quintas for the collective exhibition THE PORTRAIT.
