Everyday life, quebrada, and dreams: resistence throught gaze in photo collective activism

Abstract This paper proposes to reflect on enunciative possibilities of contemporary collectives in urban peripheries in Brazil, based on the observation of DiCampana Foto Coletivo’s experience. Created in São Paulo in 2016, the collective of photographers draws its action by the proposal of forming a collection of new images with potential to show the periphery without the typical lenses that frame it in pejorative stereotypes. Phenomenological categories of time and space are triggered as a methodological path in an attempt to understand the formation of dreams and memories by the photographic fabrication of an everyday life for the quebradas (neighborhoods in Brazilian urban peripheries). The final analytical approach is in the way of interpreting the construction of a biographical space for the periphery in the political action of creating an imagery of the “periphery looked at by the periphery”. Thus, the photographic and activist practice is understood as practice of the self, with individual and collective composition.

摘要
本研究基于对迪坎帕纳集体摄影工作室（DiCampana Foto Coletivo）实践的观察，反思巴西城市近郊当代集体社群的表述可能性。该摄影集体于2016年在圣保罗创立，其核心行动围绕打造一批全新影像作品展开，旨在摆脱将城市近郊塑造成负面刻板印象的固有视角，真实呈现近郊的日常风貌。本研究以现象学的时空范畴作为方法论路径，尝试通过影像建构quebradas（巴西城市近郊街区）的日常生活，以此探析梦想与记忆的形成过程。本研究最终的分析路径，聚焦于解读"由近郊群体自我凝视的近郊意象"这一政治实践中，为近郊建构传记性空间的过程。据此，本研究将兼具个体与集体建构属性的摄影行动与行动主义实践，视为自我实践的一种形式。