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to see color

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I started this week looking at people. Looking at the artists that inspired me, that made me create. I looked at Caravaggio, at Frida Kahlo, at Elle Moss, at Cindy Sherman, at Helena Almeida, and I wondered how I could bring them to life in a photo. 

And then, on Wednesday afternoon, I landed in the hospital with a blind spot on my left field of vision.

Turns out, it wasn’t anything serious (a migraine with an aura, a family heirloom passed down by generations of headache-prone women), and my vision returned to normal after a few minutes, but the fear that it caused me has made the panic loom in the back of my mind for the past few days. And all I could think of, when I thought the blind spot could effectively mean I was going blind (I'm melodramatic, y'all), was of how I wouldn’t see color again. 

That thought made me realize that most of my photos start out with this one element: color. It’s always the first thing I envision: what tone I want to be predominant in a portrait; what colors define a wedding; which kind of green or blue or yellow will bring out the happiest moment, for these people. It’s all about pigment and coloration, for me, and all about the color in my brain, not necessarily the one everyone sees. And this was the best way I could represent it. Even if it wasn’t a person or a thing; even if it wasn’t easy. It’s this. 

[ somos seis, amigas e fotógrafas, a fazer um '52 semanas' em conjunto. publicaremos semanalmente nas nossas redes sociais, e podem seguir-nos através da hashtag #52sisterhood. caso se queiram juntar a nós, podem usar a hashtag #52sisterhoodchallenge! contamos convosco desse lado, nesta aventura! vamos lá!

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there’s six of us, friends and photographers, doing a '52 weeks’ project together. we’ll publish every week, and you can keep up with us through the hashtag #52sisterhood. If you’d like to join us, you can use the #52sisterhoodchallenge! we’re counting on you to join us on this journey! come along! ]

Taken on: July 12, 2018

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