Made in collaboration with 50 women, this photo project contributes to the debate on the abortion ban in Brazil to advocate for all women.
Camila Cavalcante
Camila Cavalcante is a visual artist and researcher focused on feminism, photography and activism. She is the author of For the Lives of All Women (2019), a bilingual book of photographs, testimonials and essays about the experiences of those who have undergone illegal abortions in her home country of Brazil. She completed an MA in photojournalism at the University of Westminster and an MSc in Applied Gender Studies at the University of Strathclyde. As an artist, she has exhibited her work in the United Kingdom, United States, Netherlands, France, and Brazil, and has taken part in art residencies in Mexico, Brazil and the United Kingdom. She is a board member at Scottish feminist organisation Engender and, in 2018, was nominated for 100 Heroines in Photography by the Royal Photographic Society.
WHO SUPPORTS US
The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.
However, to turn our MAI dream into reality, we also relied on assistance from high-quality experts in web design, development and photography. Here we’d like to acknowledge their hard work and commitment to the feminist cause. Our feminist ‘thank you’ goes to:
Dots+Circles – a digital agency determined to make a difference, who’ve designed and built our MAI website. Their continuous support became a digital catalyst to our idealistic project.
Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
And other photographers whose images have been reproduced here: Cezanne Ali, Les Anderson, Mike Wilson, Annie Spratt, Cristian Newman, Peter Hershey