SAUDADE MOON - Brazil Feel

• Prize
• Photographer
  Paolo Marchetti, Italy
• Studio
  Paolo Marchetti
• Website
  http://www.paolomarchetti.org

I traveled for five years from the hypnotic Amazon, to the farms
in the early 1800's in the state of Minas Jerais, visiting the
islands off the north coast to the desert in the state of
Maranhao.
I photographed the lifestyle of the beaches, but also, Christmas
in the slums of the big cities on the coast and inland. I tried to
return the historical aspect expressed by the art and
architecture of Brasilia, and I told the ritual ceremonies of
Condomblè, then I traveled to the colonial villages and I
photographed the poorest countries, those forgotten by this
hysterical ongoing economic process.
I have collected aerial images and tried to return the musicality
of this vast natural land and its deep culture, changing my
narrative gait, my photographic vocality and I did listening to
my emotional distance from this amazing country, definitive.
"Saudade Moon" is my attempts to change look on the nation's
leading over the coming years, I watched my "invisible" Brazil, I
told the "unsaid", over the pacification of the favelas, over the
feverish preparation for the upcoming sporting events, which in
part, have triggered this reaction economic.

Paolo Marchetti was born in Italy, he has been working for eleven years in the Italian cinema and commercial industry as camera assistant, favoring the italian and foreigners cinematographers and began his photographic studies soon with particolar attention to political and anthropology issues. He attends several workshops with authoritative photojournalists, meeting frequently many educational initiatives in his country
Paolo currently lives in Italy in the city of Rome and works as a freelance personal projects. In the last years he told stories far from home, creating reports in Brazil, Cuba, Europe, India, USA, Haiti, central Africa, central America realizing personal projects or collaborating with humanitarian organizations, but its long-term project, (main ongoing project), realizing it at home, in his country for three years now: The extreme right in Italy.