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Hands of Salt / Mãos de Sal

Hands of Salt / Mãos de Sal

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Michel Soares is a Brazilian documentary photographer based in Japan. His work explores urban life, cultural expressions, and Afro-Brazilian heritage, always with a critical and authorial vision. He was a semifinalist at the Urban Photo Awards 2025 with the series “African Roots: Faith, Resistance, and Expression” and has taken part in international exhibitions. His images move between black and white and color, revealing contrasts between motion and stillness, chaos and silence, tradition and modernity. He regularly publishes on art platforms, offering his works in limited fine art editions.
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Hands of Salt / Mãos de Sal

Hands of Salt / Mãos de Sal

by Michel Soares

Hands of Salt is a Fine Art black and white photograph captured in Bahia, Brazil. It portrays over 40 years of life at sea: calloused, salted, and wrinkled hands that work before sunrise and rest only at nightfall. A testimony of heritage, resilience, and Afro-Brazilian cultural identity. Mãos de Sal é o registro de uma vida inteira dedicada ao mar. São mais de 40 anos de pescaria e sobrevivência, com mãos calejadas, salgadas e enrugadas, que trabalham antes do nascer do sol e só descansam ao anoitecer. Representam a resistência, a ancestralidade e a cultura de um povo que ainda hoje ensina com o gesto e o silêncio.

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