Series description
Humans live as if there is another planet available that we can call ‘home’ after we have consumed this one. Fly Me to the Moon (and you can read it as if you were singing it!) is an SOS from a runaway train heading to this imagined planet. However, this new host planet simply does not exist. It is time for us to wake up and realise there is only one place where we all can live in joy and prosper: and that is right here. This series revolves around seemingly disparate images of wasted nature and assemblages composed from family photographs, effectively creating a family album from a time after the world has ended.
Biography
Brazilian visual artist and photographer. b. 1977, Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ - Brazil. Lives and works in São Paulo, SP - Brazil. Photography is the main language in her works, whose central theme investigates the fleetingness of time and the ordinary of life. In 2020, her photobook “where my starry sky lies” was published and listed by VOGUE Italia as one of the 25 best photobooks of the year. Since 2015, her works have been presented in exhibitions in Brazil and abroad. Currently (2023) pursuing a Master’s degree in Communication and Semiotics at PUC-SP.
Fly Me to the Moon
This image is an assemblage evoking joy and movement. It is composed of three elements: a photograph of nature invaded by maritime transportation, which was taken in Seattle, USA, in 2019; a family photograph taken by my grandparents in the 1960s, when a child’s only worry was having fun; and a piece of Greek lace, symbolising traditional crafts and ancestry.
© Juliana Jacyntho, Brazil, Shortlist, Professional competition, Creative, 2023 Sony World Photography Awards
Fly Me to the Moon
This image combines three photographs taken in 2022, which together represent hunger and an exodus of destroyed nature.
© Juliana Jacyntho, Brazil, Shortlist, Professional competition, Creative, 2023 Sony World Photography Awards
Fly Me to the Moon
This image combines three elements: two pictures taken in Seattle (water and stones) in 2019; a family photograph from the 1950s showing my smiling grandparents dancing at a ball; and a piece of Greek lace, symbolising traditional crafts and ancestry.
© Juliana Jacyntho, Brazil, Shortlist, Professional competition, Creative, 2023 Sony World Photography Awards
Fly Me to the Moon
A pair of photographs taken in 2022 in the northeastern state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.
© Juliana Jacyntho, Brazil, Shortlist, Professional competition, Creative, 2023 Sony World Photography Awards
Fly Me to the Moon
A frozen plate over a spilled waste of water. As Alanis Obomsawin, the Canadian filmmaker, once wrote: ‘When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realise, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money.’
© Juliana Jacyntho, Brazil, Shortlist, Professional competition, Creative, 2023 Sony World Photography Awards
Fly Me to the Moon
An animal bone, partially covered with seashells. Northeastern Brazil, 2022.
© Juliana Jacyntho, Brazil, Shortlist, Professional competition, Creative, 2023 Sony World Photography Awards
Fly Me to the Moon
‘Is there life on the surface? Is the soil red as we believe it to be on Mars? How surprised would you be to discover that I’ve found a little pau-brasil tree sprouting here?’ Photograph of dry soil in Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, 2022.
© Juliana Jacyntho, Brazil, Shortlist, Professional competition, Creative, 2023 Sony World Photography Awards