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Exhibition at Paris Photo with Polaroid and Magnum
jaír f. coll
Nov 22, 2024
Summary
Polaroid x Magnum exhibited my story 'Samara, a Zika's daugther' as part of their project 'Real life is not in black and white' at Paris Photo 2024, in the Grand Palais.
Back in 2019, I documented the life of Samara, a girl with Zika-related microcephaly in Cali, Colombia. This condition causes Samara to have a 97% disability, forcing her to cope with delayed physical and neurological development, severe spasticity, lack of musculature, and other symptoms.
Now, at 7 years old, Samara’s family continues to strive to provide her with a dignified life despite a condition that will last throughout her life.
In opening a new chapter in this documentary project, I photographed their journey in Black and White Polaroids, in which the family intervened with drawings and scratchings to illustrate how they bring color to Samara's life. This is more than a story about a girl and her mother, Eliana, her sister, Briana and her father, Jean-Paul: it's a project that points to a pandemic that provoked more than 2,400 cases of congenital syndrome in Latin America in 2016. This event is almost forgotten by the media and public health system throughout the continent, so Samara's piece of life reminds us that we cannot leave these families unattended.
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