This fantastic project from Leticia explores gender and identity bonds amongst marginalized women from different cultures, she photographed Brazilian street girls who are forced to live disguised as boys in order to avoid sexual abuse. Valverdes supplied the 'invisible' girls of the barrios with the clothes, make-up, and mirrors they're denied by the constraints of the ghetto, and sensitively recorded the unfurling of feminine self-confidence as the girls dressed up and escaped into a feminised freedom.
Title: Invisible Lives: Brazilian Street Girls Publisher: Vision On Language: English Publication Date: 2000 Binding: Softcover Book Condition: Very Good Dust Jacket Condition: N/A Edition: First Edition Edition Run: N/A Size: 32 x 23 cm Pages: 100
