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The Great Guardians

Guardiã das Cores

The Great Guardians

Kity RamosbyKity Ramos
10 de August de 2025
in Portfolio

Finalist in FotoDoc Photo Contest 2025

This photographic essay emerged from my desire to document and honor ancient cultures rapidly transforming in the face of advancing globalization and technology. Through journeys across remote regions, I photographed women from diverse ethnic groups—Pokot, Gabra, Turkana, Samburu, Kayapó, Yi, Intha, Red Dao, Hmong, Lachi, Giay, Dongria Kondh, and Desia Kondh—who stand as great guardians of their peoples.

They are the ones preserving, with extraordinary strength, ancestral practices, rituals, and wisdom. Even while inhabiting sometimes inhospitable lands, they resist modern world pressures and continue passing down the essence of their traditions from generation to generation.

In this work, I seek to document the historical and cultural significance of women who, with dignity and beauty, keep their people’s identity alive.

Translated with Deepseek AI

 

Beleza Adornada
Raiz Acesa
A Flor da Fúria
Fumaça Ancestral
Rainha Turkana
A Reza
A mulher e a Galinha
Senhora da Força
Cores do Silêncio
Infância Ancestral
Mulher em Tons
Guardiã do Tempo
Hora do Chá
Palmas em Dança

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Kity Ramos

Kity Ramos

Durante os últimos cinco anos, Kity Ramos, percorreu a África, a Ásia e a América Latina para registrar culturas tradicionais. A fotógrafa documentarista definiu como foco do seu trabalho os povos originários que vêm mantendo a fé animista, os costumes milenares, os rituais dos antepassados e a mitologia ancestral. Mesmo enfrentando ameaças de toda ordem — da violência de grupos terroristas ao avanço descontrolado do processo de globalização —, esses grupos étnicos empenham-se em preservar sua identidade. O propósito da fotógrafa documentarista é construir um grande mosaico de populações tradicionais por todo o mundo para mostrar que parte do que fomos num passado distante ainda resiste no dia a dia dos povos originários. Seu trabalho nos conduz às nossas próprias raízes e ao entendimento de uma cosmovisão que se perdeu no Ocidente, sobretudo em razão do crescimento dos grandes centros urbanos.

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