Banzo: um homem negro com uma câmera fotográfica

Abstract

This undergraduate thesis presents the development of an autoethnographic research carried out during the Visual Arts program, grounded in experiments with printed photography on cardboard. The work employs banzo as a conceptual key through which the investigation unfolds, guided by the reflections of Davi Nunes dos Reis, bell hooks, Achille Mbembe, and Sandra Koutsoukos, whose ideas inform the theoretical and sensorial axes of the study. Throughout the process, connections emerge between photography, banzo, Blackness, materiality, and escrevivência, establishing a dialogue between technical procedure and embodied knowledge. The research articulates image, memory, and material experimentation as pathways to understand how the photographic act—when displaced from conventional supports—can evoke affect, rupture, and ancestral resonance. By engaging with cardboard as both medium and metaphor, the study positions marginal photographic practices as potent strategies for narrating lived experience and reconfiguring the politics of representation.