Entre o fazer fotográfico e o fazer coletivo: observando os ativismos do Punho Coletivo na cena fotográfica contemporânea de Maceió

Abstract

This monograph analyzes the trajectory of the feminist photographic collective Punho Coletivo in the field of contemporary photography in Maceió - Alagoas, in an attempt to understand the political contours of the relationship between collective photography and feminism. For that, I start from a theoretical and methodological apprehension that articulates the contributions on gender and photography, on the construction of knowledge located from the coalition of experiences between the subjects of interest of the research, and the ethnographic reports that I bring from the immersions in field I ran. Since feminist expressions in the artistic field are already perceived from different approaches from the articulation between art, politics and activism, this work sought to understand how these factors are expressed in the contemporary photographic field of the city of Maceió, which is demarcated by problematic and asymmetries that intensify gender tensions and narrative disputes about local photographic production. As Punho Coletivo was the first feminist photographic collective in Maceió, I tried to look into the constitutive aspects of the group and the drawings and paths taken by its activism in order to understand the alignment between collective photography and feminism.