Birth

• Prize
  Silver in Science/Medicine
• Photographer
  Pedro Mendes Levier
• Agency / Studio
  Pml Stories
• Technical Info
  Shot On Expired Film Ilford Iso 3200 (expired In August 2020) / 1977 Pentax K1000
• Photo Date
  03/02/2021

Alix was made on a hopeful afternoon. It was the beginning of the COVID crisis in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She was born on February 2021. In the middle of the Carnival. Of a year without Carnival. This is a gift to a time that cannot be achieved. To Alix’s grandfather, my wife’s father. Who passed away more than 25 years ago. And left an old Pentax K1000 with a broken film lever. A camera with flaws. That produces preternatural shots by chance. Flaws and chance. Despised components of life. Fundamental elements of living. Pieces of Alix. Now, before, and then.