Fotografia e reterritorialização urbana. Saídas fotográficas e sensibilidade social em Belém

Abstract

The article discusses the relationship between the notion of reterritorialization and the photographic experience, seeking to understand the social experience of photographing the city of Belém in its contexts of meaning: the historical dynamics of what we call the “photographic movement of Belém” and the temporal experiences of the observed subjects. In order to illustrate the problem, a nine-month-long ethnographic research is cut and a “photographic outlet” – an urban tour of photographers, which took place on the night of the Trasladação, which precedes the Círio de Nazaré, in Belém – is followed. The article discusses photography as a process of re-signification and sensitization of the urban space.