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PRIMEIRO LUGAR
• Not One More
Priscila Ribeiro
The project "Not One More" is a photographic and documentary initiative that denounces the alarming reality of femicide, giving face and voice to women victims of gender violence. Through impactful images and sensitive narratives, the project not only highlights the pain and scars left by these tragedies but also emphasizes the stories of resistance, memory, and the fight for justice. Inspired by the social outcry against femicide, "Not One More" seeks to raise awareness, promote debate, and demand urgent changes so that no woman is silenced by violence.
SEGUNDO LUGAR
• My Incompleteness
Carol Pires
https://youtu.be/Q-I8VEZcouw
How much do our questions echo in the city of dreams? How much does the search for meaning reverberate in this world? My greatest wealth is my incompleteness. My greatest wealth lies in seeking answers and finding so many stories along the way. May it be possible for each one, in their beautiful and crazy expressiveness, to keep dancing.
• Memory
Juliana Holck e Vinicius Miquelim
https://youtu.be/Y7D52fEcNLs
A short film that reflects on how we process our memories.
• The Void Is the Beginning and the End of Everything
Thaís Valencio de Souza
https://youtu.be/PwOKkPCZ_JA
The project talks about mental health and lack of support within solo motherhood.
TERCEIRO LUGAR
• A Carnival of Motherhood
Liv Peres
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA-nQKq2ROE
My Carnival day in Switzerland, on March 5, 2025, with my children.
• Offerings of Humanities
Juliana Bizzo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j52Zws2oVI0
Every gaze, every gesture, and every smile captured in these images shout: equality does not divide, it unites. Inclusion does not steal space, it builds bridges. Diversity does not threaten, it transforms.
These photographs are a call to rethink our prejudices, our omissions, and our resistances. They invite us to imagine a world where everyone can exist fully, with the freedom to express their faith, culture, and identity.
And in the midst of all this, I was there. With the camera in my hands and my heart surrendered. Photographing these moments was more than a job; it was a blessing. An experience that pierced through me and reminded me why I chose this path. Because photography is not just about recording what is in front of the eyes, but about feeling, connecting, allowing each image to tell a story that pulses, sings, and dances.
In the sea, in the prayers, in the bodies moving in harmony with the waters, I found something greater than myself. I found Axé. I found belonging. I found the certainty that the beauty of a society lies in its ability to welcome, not to exclude. That celebrating Yemanjá, or any cultural manifestation, is to celebrate humanity in all its forms.
Diversity has never been and will never be a threat. It is, in fact, what makes us infinitely greater. What teaches us that there are a thousand ways to exist, to believe, to love. What reminds us that when we make space for others, we also open ourselves to a new world, richer, truer, more whole.
And that is what these images carry. An invitation to look, feel, and, above all, recognize: plurality does not divide us—it expands us.
• Take It, My Mother!
Monique Olive
https://youtu.be/58JwjZm714c
This is a short film that pays homage to Mother Oxum and Mother Yemanjá, the water mothers of Umbanda. The recording was made in February 2025, the month when Yemanjá Day is celebrated, the queen of the sea, when the Caboclo 7 Arrows and Father Benedito de Aruanda, from Nepomuceno/MG, made their offering to Yemanjá, even though Minas has no sea. On the same day, a baptism ceremony of the religion was held, conducted by the caboclos who mentor the temple's work. On that occasion, in addition to the baptism, several people were able to receive the blessing of the waters of Mother Oxum, the mother of the waters of rivers and waterfalls, in a cleansing and energizing ritual.
FINALISTAS
• On Becoming an Activist - Art of Confrontation
Malu Ornelas
https://youtu.be/6465f2S4QoY
ART OF CONFRONTATION | Photographic Project The constant rebellion in the suburbs of the planet
It is essential to keep alive the memory of this fusion of people, movements, icons, and cultures that represent the essence of contestation, resistance, and social criticism. These artistic manifestations, which present themselves in different ways, are vital to challenge and question the prevailing norms of today's society.
MALU ORNELAS PHOTOGRAPHY
MARIA PIA MAKE AND STYLING TAMARA ROCHA CULTURAL PRODUCER ALFA AGENCY PHOTO
ON BECOMING AN ACTIVIST speech by ANGELA DAVIS.
• Ground Down
Fernanda Pedroso
https://youtu.be/uUFLOe-bLls
"Ground Down" portrays the repetitive routine that slowly consumes our energy, a generation focused on productivity, consumed by the excessive volume of information. A short film that explores daily exhaustion and the constant feeling of being slowly consumed by the fast pace of modern life.
• ephemeral
Raquel O'Czerny
https://youtu.be/v8xpRMMZB-U
A video with reflections on the freedom of the moment and how my photography seeks to retain what is fading away.
SEMI- FINALISTAS
• The Visible and the Hidden
Alessandra Ceci
https://youtu.be/BlODq0AKUQo
Fitting into a single standard within a patriarchal society seems more acceptable than recognizing one's own essence.
Despite many insecurities, looking in a mirror and recognizing that we are made of various forms, layers, and shadows requires much courage, respect, and care for a deep and transcendent dive.
I, Alessandra Ceci, visual artist and photographer, living for 26 years on the coast of São Paulo, propose to go beyond the obvious, making the imperfect, invisible, and unexpected gain form and voice.
• Invisible
Amanda Moura
https://youtu.be/q43UWgfzzOg
We live in a territory of contrasts, where identities are shaped by the social, the cultural, and collective behavior. Yet, diversity is seen by many as a threat, when it should be recognized as essence. Who has equality? Who resists inclusion?
History shows us that inclusion has always served as a tool of power. Diversity questions privileges, equality shakes structures, and sometimes destabilizes comfortable patterns for some.
But does a world that welcomes everyone really weaken someone, or does it just force the march of what has always been silenced?
This also applies to mental health. Depression, often invisible, is excluded from the social circle, treated as a deviation, a nuisance to be corrected rather than understood.
But denying pain does not make it disappear. Emotional diversity also needs space, because suffering is not weakness—it is part of human existence.
The real danger is not in plurality, but in its denial. After all, a society that rejects its own diversity is, in fact, threatening itself.
• Invisible Borders
Camille Garzón
https://youtu.be/ZRSrsDS_89M
Invisible Borders is a project about the immigration crisis in the US, portraying both those who still live in the invisibility of lacking documents and those who have achieved regular immigration status but carry the marks of an unstable system. Their stories move between a past of struggles, an uncertain present, and a dreamed future.
It is an ongoing project, in development, conceived as an exercise in Visual Literacy, exploring the relationship between image and the critical understanding of reality.
Through light, composition, and context, the trajectory of immigrants is revealed, preserving their stories with respect and confidentiality.
• Rights Are Not Negotiable
Nádia Borborema
https://youtu.be/BGCHMihp5l4
Images taken during the occupation of indigenous people at the Secretary of Education of Pará in February 2025 as a form of protest against the government, where they demanded their rights. The act symbolized the union between different ethnicities, all with the same purpose of ensuring that their voices are not silenced and that their rights are recognized and respected.
• The Partisan, Carry Me Away | Art of Confrontation
Malu Ornelas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sJuEVfsYMQ
ART OF CONFRONTATION / Photographic project The constant rebellion in the suburbs of the planet.
It is essential to keep alive the memory of this fusion of people, movements, icons, and cultures that represent the essence of contestation, resistance, and social criticism. These artistic manifestations, which present themselves in different ways, are vital to challenge and question the prevailing norms of today's society.
MALU ORNELAS PHOTOGRAPHY MARIA PIA MAKE AND STYLING MAURO ORNELAS ACTOR
ALFA AGENCY PHOTO
BELLA CIAO is a hymn of the Partisans—members of the Italian resistance— against FASCISM.
• Impulses of the Spectrum
Vanessa Ribeiro
https://youtu.be/uFOXe0ZvVNI?feature=shared
Children diagnosed with autism have various types of stereotypies, repetitive movements that help them reorganize, but in excess can cause sensory overload.
• Bodies That Feel
Juliana Bizzo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKbDGfO-D6k
"Bodies That Feel" is inspired by "My Body Is Here," a theatrical piece that exposes what has always existed but few wanted to see: the power, sensuality, and right to pleasure in the bodies of people with disabilities. Including people with disabilities in the debate about sexuality is to recognize that desire, pleasure, and affection are part of the human experience—different bodies, equal rights.
• No Birds Of My Imagination
Vini Miquelim
https://youtu.be/zo6hS5caoc0
Where are we? Here? There? Today? Yesterday? Tomorrow? Is it day? Is it night? Is it sunny? Is it raining?
Unsettling questions that surround us every day.
But the biggest question of all...
What the hell am I doing?
• The Detour of Unseeing - Libélula Urbana Project
Cib Maia
https://youtu.be/YZodRPCLoGU
Video art: The Detour of Unseeing - Libélula Urbana Project
Living in the city daily evokes the most varied perceptions and sensations, which succeed and transform like the swift, agile, and instantaneous flight of a dragonfly. This restlessness leads us to see the daily lives of women in the city, the comings and goings, the encounters and confrontations, the roads and urban detours, filled with forms, colors, textures, layers, and noises that move in contradictory scenarios, reflecting, like in crystal-clear waters, the society that creates and reproduces, to itself, inhumanities. Unveiling the deep oppression over women, even if veiled by contemporaneity, and opening the panoramic and sensitive gaze of the dragonfly to the dignified appropriation of place in the territory, strengthens the fight for the rescue of humanity, for respect for freedom, and for the taste of detour and unseeing.
Research . Hybrid Photography . PAOLA CAMPOS Performance . Video Editing . Voice . CIB MAIA Filming . EOS
Text . MANOEL DE BARROS
• (TRANS)seeing History
Juliana Bizzo
https://youtu.be/BG-FIfTSBWE?si=WbIB69PBUlZWdSvN
"(TRANS)seeing History" is a photographic series created during the last street rehearsal of Paraíso do Tuiuti, with a samba plot that rescues the trajectory of the first transvestite in Brazil. Through my lens, I reveal the strength, beauty, and resistance of those who have always been here but have not always been seen. Among colors and movements, this series is an act of visibility, a tribute to the plurality and power of transvestites in Brazilian culture. Because to trans-see is to see beyond, to shed light on what history has tried to erase.
• Ancestral Wisdom of the Womb
Juliana Saldanha
https://youtu.be/NYwtquBp148
This video is the trailer for a short film produced in partnership with @thaispiresdeandrade and @biambueno for the course "Ancestral Wisdom of the Womb." Inspired by the story of Trudelle Thomas, found in the book "Becoming a Woman" by Jane Hardwicke Collings, the film narrates Helena's encounter with the Moon Goddess, who guides her on her journey of transformation.
With a sensitive and poetic approach, the short film portrays the feminine cycles and the rites of passage of the womb—from menarche to maturity—honoring the ancestral wisdom of the body. In a society that often silences and fragments the feminine experience, we seek to portray and reclaim these experiences, opening spaces for women to recognize, celebrate, and integrate their own journey.
Through audiovisual media, we find a language capable of giving form to these humanities that traverse us—pains and enchantments, ruptures, and rebirths. Each image becomes a witness to a collective feeling, stitching together stories that, although unique, resonate with many of us. Filmed in the Serra Catarinense, among mountains and mists, the short film weaves narrative and poetry by @thaispiresdeandrade, creating a deep connection between the character and nature. Each scene invites a reconnection with the mysteries of the body, the memory of those who came before, and the power of feminine cycles.
"From one shore to another
flows the red river of life,
carrying me through the infinite course... meandering between chaos and order."
• BESTIARY
Cib Maia
https://youtu.be/dm5wgVPQzZw
» The places and the new hybrid beings that inhabit them
» transmutations of powers and declines
» emergences of structures and species under organic and technological natures
§ Transdisciplinary artistic research; dance, audiovisual, architecture, and urbanism.
§ Perception of the hybridity of movements; different stimuli from each region where the scenic experiment is conducted.
§ Absorption of historical and architectural aspects.
BESTIARY is an investigation of real, unreal, surreal, and becoming-real beings. How they inhabit, move, and transform their distinct locations and their urban layouts, their architectures, and their peculiar presences—unique animated and inanimate elements of each place and its cut in space-time.
Under a metamorphic character, this improvisational dance work adapts spatially and contextually to each location of performance, suffering and generating interferences on an artistic base structure. It never ends and is never the same.
Research, performance, and video editing: Cib Maia @cib.maiart Audiovisual direction and original soundtrack: EOS @eosbeatz
Light and sound designs: Cib Maia and EOS
Photography: Paola Campos @paolarocampos | Julia Gonçalves @juj.ugm | Vinícius Samuel
Clothing: a m o n d e - architecture of dressing @amonde.arqu
• Fragments
Fernanda Pedroso
https://youtu.be/drnsJLy6WIA
She lost her memory
I am lost in her memory I am here!
Trying to find myself
"Fragments," pieces of something larger that has been broken, moments that escape, memories that resist but are never whole. This project was born from a catharsis. For some years, I have lived with the pain of seeing one of the people I love most losing her memory. My grandmother, who has always been a pillar in my life, now becomes another, still being herself. She lives in a world of her own, a space where I don't know if I belong.
One of my greatest pains was to see this distance grow, even greater than the Geography that separated us. When I moved abroad in 2020, I was still someone to her. When I returned in 2023, she did not recognize me.
Photography became my way of dealing with this absence. Fragments of memory, of presence, of identity—trying to rescue what dissolves, trying to find myself in the space she no longer sees.
I am trying to learn to live with this distance by getting closer to myself.
• So Rare
Sabrina Pivato da Paz
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3CJ5afE2Qn4
Time passes
In its own time Without looking back
Time stops
For some reason In its own time
Like a breath Life passes Life changes
It's now It's so rare
• Micro Tale of the Gaze
Pattrícia Pitombo
https://youtu.be/u9jO6pwFZQs?si=ig-Ixp3Abuup4cmD
To see is also to feel. Often we do not see, we only feel. The project consists of a mini inventory of my daily gaze.
• Poetic Fragments
Paola Rogedo Campos
https://youtu.be/P-wenbOGjHo
'Poetic Fragments' began from my encounter with six dance artists who created the project in playlistA: made at homA: "Andrea Anhala, Cibele Maia, Ester França, Joelma Barros, Márcia Neves, and Marise Dinis." During the period of social isolation in the Covid-19 pandemic, in 2020 and 2021, they felt compelled to find virtual supports and new communication tools to continue thinking about dance through the practice of improvisation inspired by the feminine universe and the many issues it harbors. Through the computer screen, isolated in my residence, I photographed the virtual encounters and performances of the artists that were conducted via the Zoom platform, generating images also born from photographic improvisation in this turbulent period of technological acceleration. I sought to look sensitively at the intuitive interactions of (re)existence and affective connections, of strength and resilience, revealed by bodies that rarely rest in their bubbles, by the skins they inhabit, by textures in so many nuances, by cycles and feminine signs. Beyond the record, the photographs generated through the camera during the virtual performative encounters constituted extraordinary raw material, through which I have elaborated other reflective and revealing compositions of subtle layers and poetic fragments in digital images and videos.
