Guarda-chuva Etnográfico

Abstract

It is a series of photographs that intend to record variable places of Santo Amaro in the Recôncavo Baiano. These images were photographed in the field lesson of the Photography component of CECULT-UFRB.

Santo Amaro is a culturally, religiously and touristically rich city. Santo Amaro is still home to the remnants of sugar cane and coffee plantations. It is also a city with the highest number of candomblé terreiros in Bahia. City of Caetano, Bethânia, Zilda Paim, Besouro Mangangá, Draº Elvira Queiroz, Teodoro Sampaio, Nicinha do Samba, among others.

The plastic artist Emanuel Araújo, among other personalities who made famous the brown land of the brave capoeirista master Beet Cordão de Ouro and the master of the maculelê, Popó. The poet Mabel Velloso, another illustrious Santamarine, defines Santo Amaro as "the oldest piece of the Recôncavo Baiano. From his massapé were born the sweetest reeds and the sweetest stories.

The Subaé River is the target of environmental catastrophes, the case of lead pollution in all parts of the city. Dark times, where many were killed and others still manage to work to maintain their livelihood, that is, to survive.