Fotografia e memórias negras diaspóricas: contranarrativas visuais no acervo pessoal da família Oliveira no Recôncavo da Bahia

Abstract

This study uses photography as a research locus to reflect on the importance of the image in the process of reworking another visual narrative of what it means to be black in the diaspora. What impact does the image have on black people? What is the relevance of a new image construction for black people? Based on the Oliveira family's photographic collection, the research reflects on image, blackness, memory and ancestry. The methodology used in this dissertation was the ethnography of the image in which the photographs, the relationship and interactions within the family were studied. Within this study, it was observed that the elaboration of the image has constructed other black visualities led by ancestry and reinvention of the self in the black diaspora.