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"Morro da Favela": Representing Brazilian Urban Peripheries through Visual Media
Pages 163 - 179
DOI https://doi.org/10.33675/AMST/2022/2/7
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André Diniz’s "Morro da Favela" is a graphic narrative based on the life and work of Maurício Hora, a Brazilian photographer from Morro da Providência. I propose that while Hora’s original photographs represent the image of this favela from the perspective of one of its inhabitants, thus creating a counter-hegemonic visual archive, Diniz’s graphic narrative serves as a remediation object that reinforces Hora’s artistic commitment to social contestation. The formal techniques and the didactic tone stimulate the widespread distribution of the graphic narrative that visually frames Hora’s (auto)biographical storytelling and that has been translated into various languages. The poetics and aesthetics of both registers, photography and graphic narrative, merge in Diniz’s work: they become a counter-hegemonic instrument whose modes of depiction are disassociated from preconceived social constructions of the favela, which have been widely replicated by the media.
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