Timor-Leste: Do Paraíso | Husi Paraízu, Isabel Nolasco
“It was in Timor-Leste, a country where I lived for nearly 10 years, that I unleashed what I discovered to be a vocation for photography. Because Timor-Leste is of a unique, raw, and intoxicating beauty. Because the smiles and generosity of its people are directly proportional to the history of their suffering and selflessness. And because it awakens (in those who can see beyond its vulnerabilities) a desire for contemplation and an overwhelming feeling in the face of elements that impose themselves and declare themselves to our eyes: the sea, the sky, the mountains, the light. What this book shows are fragments of time and places that I photographed in Timor-Leste, coincidences or moments that I lived and recorded with emotion. These records are memories, they are portraits of a people, of their daily lives and rituals. Of their struggles and difficulties in fulfilling their days. Of their strength and unyielding smiles. Of hope, of the gaze of children who are the future. In this book, I show what my eyes saw and what, in every moment, touched me. The soul of a country and of a people engraved in moments forever stored in my camera and inseparable from my heart.”
Isabel Nolasco
*bilingual work (Portuguese and Tetum)
Preface by José Ramos-Horta | Afterword by Ana Gomes
Texts by: Mari Alkatiri | Vicente Guterres | João Paulo Esperança | Maria Ângela Carrascalão | | Luís Cardoso de Noronha | Crisódio Araújo | Milena Pires | Madre Guilhermina Marçal
