Maria Oliveira
I was born in 1982 in Ponte de Lima, Portugal. In 2005 I got a degree in Marketing in Universidade do Minho and currently live in Braga, Portugal. In photography, I’m most interested in its documental side and in the umbilical places, and so I have been photographing Bemposta, the place where I grew up.
One name to say the light
This series of images is about my aunt, namely about last year, in which she became bedridden due to health problems. With this work I wanted to portray also what is most familiar to her, the objects that always identified her, the few things she kept during her whole life, has a ballast of her existance. I photographed her space, what she came to conquer over time. I wanted to show how most of the objects refer to nature, as a primordial connection to earth, being a person that always lived from what earth gave her.
Flowers, trees, animals are always present in the things she has in her house.
This series aims do show the sensitive and simple woman she is, searching for happiness in the little things like a hug or a smile. She is a clear person, as if still touched by a childlike innocence.
