Reference :
V-P-BR-E-00350
Date :
2017
Caption :
São Paulo. Portrait of Lucineide whose son, Felipe, has been missing since November 2008.
Confidentiality level :
public
Publication restrictions :
publication without restrictions
Description :
Getting a tattoo was one of Felipe's dreams. Nevertheless, his mother, Lucineide, did not let her son, then a minor, do it. She used to say he would be able to do it later, as an adult. However, it all changed in November 2008, when Felipe disappeared.
"Everywhere I went looking for him people kept asking me: does he have a tattoo? And when I answered no, I wondered if that would help fining him", tells Lucineide. After the disappearance of her son, Lucineide stopped working and started suffering from panic attacks, especially in crowded places. The disappearance affected the whole family, and Lucineide's youngest son suffers from his mother's insecurity. She also made a tattoo on her back, a mythological phoenix bird, to remember her son Felipe.
ICRC website, 08.05.2017, News release, excerpt: “The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will launch an exhibition, A falta que você faz (The void you left), by photographer Marizilda Cruppe at the National Museum of the Republic, in Brasilia. The exhibition will focus on the lives of disappeared persons' family members.
At the invitation of the ICRC, Marizilda visited the relatives of missing persons in Curitiba, Maceió, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo from August 2016 to March 2017. She heard stories from parents, children, grandparents, uncles and aunts of people who, for some reason or no reason at all, simply vanished without leaving a farewell note or any trace. When Marizilda walked into their homes – which are usually emotionally charged environments that bear a strong connection with the missing person – she approached these people to gain an in-depth understanding of the impact of the disappearances on those who had been waiting for some word.”
This image is part of the exhibition.
Original material :
digital
Resolution :
8688x5792
Orientation :
landscape
Colour/B&W :
colour
