More and more people ask me about the Gallery of Babel . The major magazine Blind Spot , a reference, brings in all your edits a page disclosing the photographers of Babel, whose list is growing. Besides the new permanent space in Sao Paulo, Babel is also explained in Gallery 8 Rosas , the Cultural Association Cecilia , part of the SP Art and will be in Paraty in Focus as a special guest.

The Tower of Babel by Pieter Brueghel

As a member of the team, it is difficult to speak of Babel with the exemption. It is also impossible to speak without speaking of the Gallery Jully Fernandes. Resorted, therefore, Antonio Goncalves Filho, who defined in Article impressive as a young Paulista, a former flight attendant, a former movie stuntman and former employee of Buckingham Palace, which was also an actress and producer of theatrical pieces Miguel Falabella and Wolf Maya.

Still according to the prestigious and unsuspected source, the Gallery specializes in photography and now the exclusive representative of Magnum Photos in Latin America "begins five years ago when entrepreneur, age 30, decided to open a virtual photo gallery to sell photos of professional friends as Dimitri Lee, Andreas Heiniger and Ricardo Van Steen. Since then, Jully was a collector with some experience in the production area - she worked at the Department of Photography magazines. Daring, she decided she would disclose any cost of Brazilian photography in foreign museums and took their fluency in English - she was married to a British percussionist - to impress the directors of major institutions of England. "( O Estado de Sao Paulo , 4 August and September 12, 2009).

Is Babel a shadow of Jully? Jully will be a shadow of Babel? (Photo Eduardo Muylaert)

The Gallery, until now virtual, just opened its permanent space at the Cultural Center b_arco , Rua Virgilio de Carvalho Pinto 422/426, Pinheiros, Sao Paulo (Tel: 11 3825-0507). It is a fantastic shed worthy of true museum.

There took place the opening event and launch of the Magnum Photos agency in Brazil, which continues even with full-length films and short of the photographers Elliott Erwitt, Martin Parr, Bruno Barbey and Stuart Franklin, and photographic work of some members of Magnum Photos .

The current exhibition mixes the American gold and the silver of the house, Elliott Erwitt, Thomas Hoepker, Martin Parr, Bruno Barbey, Joel Meyerowitz, Zak Powers and Mio Nakamura, on one side. On the other, Brazilian and Latin American photographers like Andreas Heiniger, Ricardo Van Steen, Eduardo Muylaert, Gurfein Martin, gui Mohallem, Roberto Linsker, Dimitri Lee, Marcelo Brodsky, Vania Toledo, Pablo Di Giulio, Vendramini Monica Clemente Gauer, Iatã Cannabrava, Peter Martinelli and Hilton Ribeiro.

For Paraty in Focus, Jully Fernandes selected works of three of their constituents: gui Mohallem, Martin and Eduardo Gurfein Muylaert.

gui Mohallem presents its test for insanity and explains: Things that make us unique: singularities or insanity?

"With a high rate of imbalances in the family history, the madness has always seemed a reasonable possibility. I thought maybe it came in contact with the singularities of the people, that could assuage my anguish. These images were made in digital pinhole, which is to briefly take the camera lens and replace it with a modified cap. "

Mohallem gui (Photo Eduardo Muylaert)

Martin explains his Gurfein series:

"The Invisible began with an invitation to join the 'notodofotofest' (photo festival in Spain). The theme was sustainability. Later he was chosen to illustrate the chapter label Green Book "La Tierra User Manual" posted on the 'Expo Zaragoza 2008'. From 2006 I started working with color who longed so much to develop. I started doing what I call the extinction of colors, colors that arise from the decomposition quo. Many of these colors are different waters at different grains and causes of pollution, a color to Damascus with milk and color with my son for 17 years at the time he painted his hair one day, current colors, new, artificial, arising by little, as the color of Fanta Grape. "

CYAN-2, Martin Gurfein

Women Have the Others, the new series of Eduardo Muylaert , falls within the field of art by appropriation. A box of old slides, with the inscription "artistic nudes" was purchased at a crafts fair for one hundred dollars. Scanned and re-framed female bodies in the fifties that were almost pornographic rediscover the beauty of classical Greek sculpture, valued by the marks of time.

In the Gallery of Babel, we may not all speak the same language, but we are in the same boat. This boat, piloted by the intrepid Jully Fernandes, now will anchor the first time in Paraty.