A CARA DA MUDANÇA

I see a country of stepped on history, badly told and damaged, country of people who work, that make their lives the reason for their existence, diligent people had as vagabonds, country of low esteem, that moves mountains, but is seen loading wagons.

I see a hope country, of John and Mary who create their children to load a cross planted in our history. Brazil, seasoned rice and beans, but with the life in baking still. We want to plant new fruits, to see a new station so that our children are not future pilgrims searching for soil and education.

To change this situation, I start showing the face of the change, a small sketch of the people’s face. Old people, young people, people that want to change, want to improve, want to construct, want to plant.

These photographs are the most sincere certification of my conscience. They are some images collected for my naked soul.

The photos portray stories of country men and women with their lands of agrarian reform, still portray the face of a dream of those who fight for it. Also they are photos of a transformed reality of excluded people, who show there are other that see them and it makes them smile.

These infantile smiles, smiles of dreams that make me see the change. These smiles are planted today, in our seed-action, in the future’s land, for the fields of tomorrow.

Guilherme Meneghelli (2004)