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Unerased Reflection

Juliana BizzobyJuliana Bizzo
19 de August de 2025
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Selected in FotoDoc Photo Contest 2025

Unerased Reflection

Reflexo Que Não Se Apaga, Imagem Destacada de Juliana Bizzo finalista do Prêmio Portfólio FotoDoc 2025

This photo captures backstage at the DragStar finals, Theatro Rival, Rio de Janeiro, May 2025.

Amid open makeup jars and improvised containers, drag queen Natasha Brizza faces herself in a magnifying mirror—and begins her transformation.

The interrupted gesture, the focused expression, the half-drawn eyeliner, the parted lips: everything here is truth. It’s about extravagance. But also presence.

This is the hour before applause—where performance hasn’t begun, but the fight is already onstage.

In the backstage of a drag competition, what unfolds isn’t just aesthetic transformation: it’s identity affirmation against a world bent on erasure.

To be drag isn’t just “getting ready.”
It’s claiming existence where many wish no reflection remained.
It’s gluing on lashes when the world claws to rip them off.
It’s turning a makeshift dressing room into territory of self.

 

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Juliana Bizzo

Juliana Bizzo

Ju é fotógrafa documental carioca, com foco em diversidade, identidade e conexões humanas. Seu trabalho atravessa temas como corpas LGBTQIAPN+ (principalmente os bastidores da cena drag e as balls da cena Ballroom) e marginalizados, e através da sua fotografia busca reconhecer e, principalmente, celebrar a contribuição cultural dessas corpas na sociedade. Membro da comunidade Alfabetismo Visual, já foi premiada duas vezes no Alfa Awards (2023 e 2024), foi premiada no Alfa Cine (2024) e participou de exposições de destaque, como o Head On Photo Festival 2024 (Austrália), o Paraty em Foco (2024) e o Foto em Pauta (2024). Foi publicada no O Globo, na Vogue, e no editor choice do Lens Culture do New York Times.

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