Nós Por Todas

Nós Por Todas, Portuguese for Us For All, is a project that explores the idea of the female body as a confrontational space. It is about women’s reproductive rights and the understanding of abortion as a collective issue, not an individual problem that some women have to go through. In Brazil, abortion is only legal to save the woman’s life, in case of a foetus without a brain and in cases of rape. Despite this prohibition, recent research suggests that one in five women between 14 and 40 years old have had at least one abortion in their lives. Within this context, for over a year I have been developing a network of women who have joined the debate to share their experiences and opinions about illegal abortion, with their identities protected. I have taken nude portraits with these women in their homes, holding and hugging them, with their back to the camera while I reveal my face, exposing my body and my identity in their name. All the images are followed by quotes that they have given to me during our interviews as well as a little background story. The titles of the images refer to the year in which those women have experienced an illegal abortion.