ENTRY DESCRIPTION
This work was conducted in a religious community founded entirely on the Holy Bible’s New Testament doctrine and faith.

Uncertainty, faith and suffering lead people to seek signs of divine grace in their lives. Puritan values that appeared to be extinct are passed on from generation to generation.

The right side of this community is reserved only for women and the work is focused on that side, where it was possible to observe and register intimate faith dissolving into the collective faith of this community. Gestures and eye-expressions compose the rhetoric of this work.

AUTHOR
Graduated from Art School in 2007, at the same time working alongside Claudio Edinger. Every day in a creative process, from colour treatment to exhibition.
In 2009 had the opportunity to visit Amazonia, photographing as an assistant the lifestyle of local people and their culture, with Edinger and Jay Colton.
In 2010, one new project, Petals on the skin. This exhibition took place in 2014 in São Paulo. Next year one more destination to shoot with Edinger: Uttar Pradesh, India.
During the process of becoming a photographer, been studing and learning with Alain Laboiele, Alex Majoli, Armando Prado, Arno Rafael Minkkenin, Bruce Guilden, Jay Colton, Steve Mccurry, among other names.



Maná Soares
1977, born in Sao Paulo - Brazil.
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
2016  Photography study group with the Artists Armando Prado, Arno Rafael
Minkkenin, Allain Laboile.
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2008  Photography Workshops with Alex Majoli, Bruce Guilden, Jay Colton, Steve Mccurry
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2007  Photography, Escola Panamericana, Sao Paulo-SP, Brazil
 
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
2008- 2010 Claudio Edinger’s Assistant Photographer
2009  Jay Colton’s Assistant Photographer
2009  Clício Barroso’s Assistant Photographer
2009  Héctor Mediavilla Assistant Photographer

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