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Julho de 2023
Photographer Ana Leal explores the physical and psychological landscape that women’s bodies are exposed to during menopause. She uses photographic techniques to create a visual essay proposing metaphors of fertility, ageing and physical decline.
11 de Setembro de 2023
Ana Leal was born in the Northeast of Brazil and is based in São Paulo. She creates evocative work that explores themes of fragility, temporality and impermanence. Her sensual imagery quietly considers the in-between spaces that are at once abstract and mysterious.
19 de Julho de 2022
The work “Beginning to die” reflects on the physical and psychological aspects that women go through when their fertility naturally comes to an end. I started this project in 2019 when appeared the first signs that I was entering the climacteric, the
JULY 01 2021
395 Days and Counting is an essay composed of images produced during quarantine due to Covid-19. Most of them were taken at my apartment in São Paulo, Brazil, and reflect this period of a contemplative mood when time seemed suspended. This is a diary about the isolation experienced during these days.
JULY 01 2021
Most of them were taken at my apartment in the city, some at a weekend retreat, both in São Paulo, Brazil, and reflect this period of a contemplative mood when time seemed suspended. This is a diary about the isolation experienced during these days.
JULY 01 2021
It all starts with a photograph of a landscape. A lake, a river, a mountain. Sceneries that so common to our eyes. In this case, all images were captured at Yellowstone National Park and Grand Teton National Park, both in the USA. From a single image, I start to work in a digital process, blurring and cropping.
JULY 01 2021
During 2017 and first semester of 2018 I went through a very difficult period of my life. I was living in the US and had to move back to Brazil due to family issues.
