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MAYSA<\/div>\n
Luisa D\u00f6rr, Brazil<\/div>\n

Maysa<\/i> is a project about race and gender in Brazil. I met Maysa during the final competition of the Young Miss Brazil Pageant in April 2014, as she was filling out her registration form. That day, I found out the pageant had two categories, one for young white women and one for young black women. Young Miss Brazil and Young Miss Brazil, Black Beauty had been created to encourage black girls to participate. Racism is unfortunately still commonplace in the country, although approximately fifty percent of Brazilians are black. The vast majority of them will have to deal with some form of long-term marginalization.<\/p>\n

Months after the pageant, Maysa contacted me, asking me to take pictures of her for her portfolio, since she wanted to enter the 2015 pageant. What had been meant as a single photography session became a work in progress. We kept in touch and, over time, we developed a strong friendship, one that has made me more aware of my country\u2019s harsh realities \u2015its racism, sexism, social exclusion, and people\u2019s struggle to survive. In 2015, Maysa won the title of Young Miss Brazil, Black Beauty.<\/p>\n

I watch Maysa and her family struggle to gain access to decent housing and to achieve a level of social recognition. But what I do find fulfilling is to see a wonderful human being come of age who represents many of the values that are slowly disappearing across Brazil.<\/p>\n

Luisa D\u00f6rr<\/p>\n

LUISA D\u00d6RR<\/div>\n
(b. 1988) Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil \/ Bahia, Brazil<\/div>\n

The photographic work of Luisa D\u00f6rr focuses on women and their lives, from global leaders \u2014the series of portraits entitled Firsts<\/i>, produced especially to serve as twelve covers of Time<\/i> magazine in 2017\u2014 to the sequence of photographs of a young beauty pageant contestant. At the age of twenty-two, D\u00f6rr discovered photography and decided to study at the Universidade Luterana do Brasil. In 2016 she was selected for the Joop Swart Masterclass of World Press Photo and in 2015 for LensCulture Emerging Talent and for the Emerging Photographer magazine of Photo District News (PDN). Her work has been published by CNN, Wired<\/i>, The New Yorker<\/i>, Vogue<\/i>, Lens Culture<\/i>, and Vice<\/i>. In 2018 she was one of the winners of the Flash Forward competition of the Magenta Foundation, while Firsts<\/i> was selected as the documentary project of the year by POYi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":36,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-proyecto-en.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88\/revisions\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}