The Curvature of Gaze is an attempt to synthesize ideas that were built from local learning with rubber tappers and riverside dwellers and their perceptions, in an opposite direction to the normal impulse of all photographic documentation. The benefit of an editing and selection of photos 20 years after the documentation itself helped to realize that I let myself be carried away by the light that came from the direct relationship with the communities inside the forest. This relationship became a priority and photography a consequence. The apparatus and photographic concepts and their historical relationships were important in this stage of visual synthesis for a flow of images and personal experiences. It is dramatic to realize today that everything that was experienced as proposals for the maintenance of ecosystems was quickly destroyed and remains very close to the point of no return, which is currently called the Climate Crisis. Never, 30 years ago, was it so current.
This edition synthesizes the production and the way of life that had to be created within the forest and according to it, by a population originally from another region, mostly from the Brazilian northeast and that was displaced in epic contingents over a century of production. of native rubber. The place of residence, the collection of latex and Brazil nuts, the production of natural rubber, the effort to build a social, economic and political organization, which even had to produce a specific educational project and with the help of the legacy of educator Paulo Freire. Click on the photos to enlarge and see the images in each gallery. Three galleries in total.
