FUTURES 2024: Nayara Leite at Oslo Negativ

Fotogalleriet and FUTURES presents FUTURES nominee 2024 Nayara Leite at Oslo Negativ 2024 opening October 12 at Gamle Veterinærhøyskolen at Adamstuen.

The revolution is black, trans, poor, working class and peripheral, Erika Hilton said in an interview in 2020 when she was elected councillor to the Municipal Chamber of São Paulo. She received the most votes for any councillor in the whole of Brazil, and she was the first black travesti to be elected for this position. Two years later, she was elected to the National Congress of Brazil. Hilton is one of the politicians who have been fighting hard against the rise of the extreme right in the country, which started when Jair Bolsonaro was elected president in 2018.

After four years with Bolsonaro as its president, Brazil is still recovering from his destructive government. He didn’t get re-elected in 2022, but his supporters are continuing what he preached: hate speech, violent acts, homophobia, transphobia, misogyny and racism. Bolsonaro left a polarised country, with the extreme right feeling more powerful than ever. Luckily, we have people like Erika Hilton who are there to fight for a better, more inclusive and tolerant Brazil.

And, who knows, maybe in a few years the revolution will finally take place and we will have a black travesti as our president.

Homage to Erika Hilton (2024)
The revolution is (2024)
Sapatão, Viado & Travesti (2024)

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About the FUTURES platform

FUTURES is a Europe-based photography platform bringing together the global photography community to support and nurture the professional development of emerging artists across the world. Since 2017, it has aimed to add long-term value by empowering early and mid-career photographers – launching initiatives to promote their work and granting them access to an unprecedented network of professionals, markets, and audiences. FUTURES seeks to encourage new and adventurous ways of enhancing the vital relationship between artists and the industry by creating an ecosystem that allows and stimulates cross-pollination, while simultaneously becoming the go-to source for emerging photography worldwide. FUTURES works as a growing international network of influential organizations operating in the field of photography, bringing together a wealth of resources, expertise, and talent programs to draw from. Each year, they nominate a group of rising photography talents to join the platform and co-host a series of events to increase their capacity, mobility, and visibility. Simultaneously, the platform aims to reveal new and exciting photographic approaches by celebrating a diversity of stories, encouraging upcoming artists to present their most challenging work, and providing insights into their world and most recent projects.

The platform currently draws from and collaborates with a consortium of the following art institutions across Europe to amplify emerging talents in photography: CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia (IT), Centre Photographique Rouen Normandie (FR), Copenhagen Photo Festival (DK), Triennial of Photography Hamburg (DE), Der Greif (DE), FOMU (BE), FOTODOK (NL), Fotofestiwal Lodz (PL), Fotogalleriet (NO), Fotograf Magazine (CZ), Organ Vida (HR), ISSP (LV), PhotoIreland (IE), Photo Romania Festival (RO), Bienal Fotografia do Porto (PT), Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center (HU), Void (GR), Photoforum Pasquart (CH), Photo Elysée (CH), Centre de la photographie Genève (CH), and our research member, Eurokleis s.r.l. (IT).

FUTURES is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. The Swiss program is supported by Pro Helvetia.