In a period when photography was analog and the processes of capture and revelation were long and expensive, how many photos was a person able to accumulate over five decades? In the case of Pará photographer Luiz Braga, the chest has an abundance of colors and intimacy between him and the portrayed people.
This is one of the sensations caused by exposure Imaginary archipelagoat the Moreira Salles Institute (IMS), in São Paulo, which Displays 258 photographs, 190 of them unpublished from the photographer.
“What is there is, first and foremost, a great manifestation of affection for these people and these places,” synthesizes Braga, noting that he had contact with many of the photographed not only a couple of times, but dozens, which allowed him to click on different circumstances.
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The truth is that Braga decomplexifies a series of dense improvements, both in the technical and relational way. He made money from work and, after consuming a part to secure the livelihood, used the rest to continue taking pictures.
These non -commercial and that I did by contentment and as an exercise of sensitivity. That is, made the photos without any incentive or financial support.
“It was not order, there was no agenda. It was just to express myself, see myself in the world and relate to the other,” he explains.
Luiz Braga began his career in 1975, with black and white photos, making a transition to the colorful in 1980. The set in the IMS space is, according to him, More than a handful of records, as the public comes across something that “goes beyond the record”.
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Braga also comments that even though already enjoying a certain prestige in the photography market, he decided to stop increasing the portfolio, which recognizes that it was “a risky bet.” The change of winds that came up then favored photography, further expanding its popularity.
With this, Pará moved to another stage, began to live on authorial photography, with full status of art.
At the moment, What interests you is the mastery of the technique in manipulating what is or not real, causing a strangeness in the viewer.
“The images that are in the session Nightvision – Eden Map They show that you can, yes, fabular as long as you use the technique to, even plasma in reality, create another place, ”he points out.
In this session, the setting is “between military green and the nuances of shadows, in which the fiction of colors makes room for narrative inventiveness: surrealism as refusal to stereotypes about territory.”
In addition to Nightvision, there are the nuclei The other, the alien, territories and belongings – the north, architecture of intimacy, Tasks and works, Popular, The portrait, Antiretrate and Marajó.
To compose the exhibition, a Pavine Publication from Braga's perspective, a curatorship was made, which lasted a year.
Bitu Cassundé, who forms the team with Maria Luiza Menezes, told the Brazil agency that the organization of the Braga file has greatly facilitated its task.
“I wasn't interested in thinking about a chronology of Luiz Braga. I always thought of the exhibition within a more organic nature, when times could get in. So, in a certain room, you will find photos of different periods, both black and white,” says Cassundé.
For the curator, the Emphasis that Braga gives to his territory – where he says, was born, lives and will remain until his death – it was an element that could never be ignored.S
Another recurring point were the Photographed backs, which can be seen in the form of what Cassundé has appointed as anti -retractors.
Luiz Braga says he is deeply proud of the creations he has produced throughout his career and at the same time regrets the lack of recognition and connection of most people with the Amazon. He reports that he has often seen exclamation features when they think his photos are not from a Pará artist, but from someone from Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo or abroad.
Side by side with this underestimation of what comes from the north of the country, Braga highlights indifference and impunity, which allow practices, such as violations of the rights of the original peoples and quilombola communities and the so -called account, used in deforestation actions, which, for the photographer, would be contested in other regions of the country.
“There are certain things, here, up (from Brazil, in the Northern Region), which, if they were in Sao Paulo, would not happen.”
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Photography exhibition “Luiz Braga – Imaginary Archipelago”
Date: April 12th to August 31, 2025
Location: Moreira Salles Institute (IMS) Paulista | Paulista Avenue, 2424 – São Paulo (SP) | Near the Subway Consolation Station
Hours: Tuesday to Sunday and holidays from 10am to 8pm (closed on Mondays). Last admission: 30 minutes before closing.
Free admission
Indicative Classification: Free