Produced between 2020 and 2024, Amada fam\u00edlia is Juliette Malveau Amado\u2019s first book. Inspired by research into the absent figure of her grandfather, Jos\u00e9 Amado, the photographer set foot in Brazil for the first time in 2020, a country where she now spends part of the year.<\/p>\n
Through her journey across Brazil and her encounters with people bearing the name Amado, Juliette transforms the search for a missing grandfather into a broader reflection on the legacies of migration, the bonds we forge, and the families we sometimes build to fill a void. She crafts an intimate photographic narrative in which Brazil emerges as a vast, contradictory land, deeply imbued with a desire to pass on traditions.<\/p>\n
Published by LeM\u00e9got, the book brings together 50 colour photographs taken between 2020 and 2024. It is accompanied by an introductory text by Ioana Mello, exhibition curator, as well as a personal text by Juliette, addressed to her grandfather, in which she reflects on this journey and the adventures that marked this quest.<\/p>\n
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Juliette Malveau Amado\u2019s Introductory Letter<\/p>\n
\u201cDear Jos\u00e9 Amado,<\/p>\n
Everybody always said \u201cthe Brazilian\u201d when talking about you. All I have left of you is this name, Amado. You are a stranger, but somehow we look alike. I arrive in Brazil and heard that name everywhere, like a familiar anchor. How lucky, to be called \u00ab beloved \u00bb.<\/p>\n
I met Giovanni Amado, a taxi driver in Copacabana. I spend hours sitting in the caf\u00e9 on rua Siqueira Campos, listening to him talk about the great line of the Amados in Brazil. In Alagoinhas, deep in the Bahian countryside, Maria-Jos\u00e9 Amado cut aloe vera from her garden and told me her family\u2019s only carried this name for two generations.<\/p>\n
After long hours on the road, I arrived at Jucilene Amado\u2019s house, in the agreste of Pernambuco. Jo\u00e3o Vitor was waiting for me, holding onto the gate. His grandmother Maria walkd me through the streets of Pedra, introducing me to the neighbors. We kept talking over bolo de milho and suco de caju, and I watched the light beginning to fall: we still had not even started taking pictures.<\/p>\n
Jos\u00e9 and his wife Iara sat together under the flamboyant tree in front of the house. Iara let me listen to her shells. Red like the flamboyant flowers, I photographed their daughter Emilia Amado\u2019s motorcycle. We drank coffee beside their collection of Jorge Amado books. Natalia read me a few pages from Cacao, standing in front of her ancestors\u2019 old textile factory in S\u00e3o Crist\u00f3v\u00e3o.<\/p>\n
In Alagoas, wooden carrancas welcomed me at the entrance of a low little house. The fan kept flipping through the pages of Elaine Amado\u2019s photo album. Her daughter sitting on her lap, the two of them posed for me in the yard, surrounded by the bonecas de barro.<\/p>\n
Back in Rio, Maurilio Amado picked me up at the bus station under heavy tropical rain. He took me to eat with the whole family at a lanchonete in downtown Petr\u00f3polis. His mother, P\u00e9rola, has your face.<\/p>\n
Ever since we met, I still receive blessing messages from Kelly\u2019s family back in Bahia. I remember their little house by the railway tracks in Alagoinhas.<\/p>\n
My journey came to an end along the Estrada do Coco. Evening fell while I walked the beaches of southern Sergipe. I photographed a statue facing the sea. I walked around to face her: it is Our Lady of the Good Journey.<\/p>\n
Without ever knowing it, you brought me to all these places. I spoke about you to strangers, trying to find you in their faces. Maybe some things are carried silently, from one generation to another. Somehow, you left me something: where there is emptiness, something can be created\u201d.<\/p>\n
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More information<\/p>\n
Juliette Malveau Amado \u2013 Amada fam\u00edlia
Published by \u00c9ditions LeM\u00e9got
210 \u00d7 297 mm, English, Portuguese and French
Introduction Text by Ioana Mello
Design by Matthieu Becker
Editorial byLoli Melon
250 copies
ISBN : 978-2-492826-38-2, 30 \u20ac
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