Tragedy of the image

August 4, 2020: a large explosion hit the port of the city Beirut in Lebanon. From this catastrophic explosion, past narratives emerge from the ashes, dialoguing with history and at the same time challenging the traditional authority of the photographic image. It was from these ports that my ancestors began to embark for Brazil over 100 years ago. The conceptual objective of this photographic project is to give body to fragments. Parts of them lost in the explosion and others (not) found in ghosts of the past. Historically, photography has continuously participated in violent acts not always explicitly. This brutality past can no longer be forgotten, but its memory can be transformed in order to build a today that escapes photography's historical baggage. Entirely made in analog photography (in-lens only), this photographic series engages to re-view my grandmother's house in the Brazilian countryside. I seek to unravel major traumatic events through a personal and transgenerational lens. In my work, the attempt is to present images that highlight the human dimension rather than the spectacle of tragedy and destruction in photography.