I left Rio de Janeiro by plane and flew for 4 hours to Manaus, the capital of the Amazon State. From there I took a boat and traveled for 2 days along the Negro River to reach the tiny city of Barcelos in the middle of the jungle. Knowing that I would stay for 48 hours in that boat, with unknown people from several corners of Brazil, I went about starting conversations and making friends.

It is curious to notice how people become more receptive when knowing, literally, that they are all in the same boat. The short boundary the human being needs to become aware of the collective sometimes inquires me. Why people living in the same block do not greet each other? Why littering a place that belongs to everyone? Why this sense of community is left aside in the neighborhood?

Taking advantage of that distorted sense of community imposed to us, which in that precise moment favored me, I could get closer and register the time. Guessing whether it is possible to capture such an uncontrolled thing at all. I tried to discover how people behave when we have to pass the time while knowing it doesn’t go faster or slower at all. The guiding light of my work was to sense what we do to fool ourselves and to ignore this power that rules us. Also to see, through my lens, human behavior in the presence of this power. In such mission of mine I depicted the moments. The thoughts, however, I leave to be photographed by each ones imaginary.

See the photo series entitled: WAIT