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Fotografando a estrada | Luma Faria | TEDxCentroUniversitárioNewtonPaiva


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My name is Luma and my background is
photo and most people me
ask but photograph your photo
and I answered yes to photography only
want to say ‘no’ all this but
photo emerged out of curiosity and
was formed by the force of documentation
she has today I see more as a
form of expression and freedom of
to be able to say without speaking gives me
possibility to leave the conversation
photographer versus viewer a little
more inclusive fluid
the project that I came here to speak today he
needs to be contextualized because
more than it impacts on the lives of others
people
it started inside my house and to
This is what I need to present to you.
father my father’s name is jonas he is
truck driver’s son and a
says he did not choose the profession to
profession you chose and because of that
I grew up on the truck’s cab that he
drove
I grew up listening to the stories of
road that he was earning uncles
on the way meet new cultures
eating different food but a
It’s time for me to make a
professional career and for that I
I needed to study and move away.
besides, I had to choose one
which strengthens according to which the
people expected traditional and give
money and creativity photography
not to be part of it
by not for the right reasons chose
engineering the euro2012
I was 17 years old, I moved from town.
I changed my friends, it was a new routine
I tried, I tried, I tried too much
But that was not for me, I knew.
I was living there with my friends, they
had a passion that I had not
I did not see in that profession I
I did not see my future in my career.
of that thing and I left today to say I
leaving is very easy
it was not very difficult at that time
only so understood that I wanted
to understand that what I wanted was
To really shoot, to get to my
Mom and tell Mom this is what I want
and she replied to me thank god
boy until tweezers saw that was the
main thing and my biggest motivation
to be able to move on
So I took this challenge for me and
I went to study photography and studied what I
I wanted to understand the meaning that she
in the world and for me the work that
I bring here today is the result of my
completion of course work
Just thinking of him I realized that I
I have taken references and I come
working on him since I was
kid
on the simpler trips with my father I
I will never forget a trip that we
we did I was about 12 years old
we used to live in the coconut grove
My grandfather’s farm in the south of Minas Gerais
my closest neighbor was about 30
minutes walk
so I did not have many friends with
time my mom my dad noticed
This and they saw that I was half sad
daughters are going to travel with their father
I traveled with him and I said now I’m super
excited let’s travel with my father I
I packed a suitcase for a whole week
excited
my father all happy and tell me the
destination daughter in the streets for three
hearts people to the city of timon and sock
away from the net was really mine.
face of frustration was evident
My father tried to comfort me but flu daughter
the city of the pelé that this has life
no people
but I know that was not the trip
longer it was not the most
beautiful that we made
but I know and I could understand that
It was enough to go on the road and
me and all was well in 2016
we made our trip which is what I
I came to make you here in this knot.
We spent seven days together we were the
south of the bay and came back
these seven days I asked for it not
change his routine and I stayed
disconnected from the rest of the
world that is there with him and this
will not change his routine made me
slept three hours a day took
bathroom and bathroom of doubtful hygiene
have breakfast at midnight then
I would travel again this trip.
made me meet incredible personalities
showed people that I drank coffee
morning that I had never seen in life and
soon after were friends made me
presented that so many that are there
generations at the side of the road
sustaining
but mainly she showed me that the
truck driver who is on the road today
day he is for love only for love of
The story I present today brings
my father as the main character of that
faced challenges that saw beautiful
landscapes that made many friends around
at the end of this trip
I arrived home I wanted to sleep three
consecutive days
My father arrived, he ate rested and he followed.
travel again
the photos I bring here they have
points to criticism but more than that
they exalt this professional who is so
present in our day to day life but
The same time it is dazed it is erased and
not remembered
but speaking speak and not speak
bring the photos here to you, huh?
Now I want to show you a little bit of
How was my trip with my father?
fernando wave because I had a hurry
I do not know why you smile because I cried
new
Today I feel stronger and happier.
who knows only leads to the certainty that much
little yes
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I know nothing
know the morning and morning taste of
pasta and apples
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it takes love to pulse power is
need peace to be able to smile it takes to
rain flowers
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I think that fulfilling life is
simply understand the march and
playing forward
like an old cowboy leading the cattle
I’m going to touch the days with the ong platform
did not show
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meet the mothers
and mornings in the apple pasta flavor
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It takes love to be able to cast it.
need peace to be able to smile it takes to
rain stopped was
everybody loves one day everybody plays one
The day we arrive at the other, it’s gone.
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each of us make up its history and
each being this
I carry where I will be able
and always
it is not because we are what we are and
we are where we are today that we do not
we can be different tomorrow I went
sound engineering student
Photography is not because my father
found the profession of his life the 18
The years that I need my life
planned
the people we love the most
every day because we can not
do it with ourselves
It was very difficult for me to accept that
it was important that I was here
today but my dad made me believe in me
and taught me that every story is worth being
heard
It might not be what you wanted
to hear today, but it may be that the
side
It can be for tomorrow.
I do not like to think I do not want
think that I’m at my limit
possibilities neither as a photographer nor as
with cleary jonas son
very happy here the steam
thanks for everything
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