Fotolivro “e.l.a”: corpo, memórias e lembranças no processo de formação sobre uma narrativa de si

Abstract

The following project aims to present the story of a family matriarch mischaracterized by ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis), a rare and degenerative disease, through memories and photographs. The work arises from the author's personal immersion in the study of photography as a language that documents and awakens the place of memory. In order to identify and build a narrative, family members are consulted as a source, accompanied simultaneously by an experimental process for the generation of the work. Through the knowledge acquired with photography and audiovisual throughout the graduation in Social Communication and approaching concepts such as memory, family and photography, the work relates the past, in parallel, how the author faces and identifies himself in the present. Finally, the final result narrates, through a photobook, the historiography of the ALS sufferer, Dona Zilda