O Tempo Não Para
September 3 – 27, 2020
For the past nine years, Brooklyn-based photographer Geralyn Shukwit has traveled the backroads of Bahia, Brazil, returning to communities year after year forming relationships with the families who reside there. O Tempo Não Para, Portuguese for “time does not stop,” is a personal documentation of those interactions and observations, a poetic record of Bahian life.
Cloaked in Bahia’s unique light, Geralyn’s intimate portrayal of daily life offers viewers distinctly quiet, in-between moments laden with profundity. Underpinning the collective power of O Tempo Não Para is her acute ability to cultivate trust and develop close connections with the community. Set in the extraordinarily colorful landscape of Bahia, a contrasting palette of bright, cool and warm colors, each photograph leaves traces of a culture steeped in the rituals and traditions that bind them.
Geralyn Shukwit is a photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. Since 2002, she has traveled to South America and the Caribbean where she intimately photographs daily life, straddling the line between documentary and fine art photography. Shukwit’s photographs have been exhibited in the United States, Spain and Ethiopia, and published in National Geographic, Progresso Fotografico Italy, BIG Magazine, New York Daily News, and Post. She is a winner of the Julia Margaret Cameron Award, Photolucida Critical Mass Top 50, AI/AP Latin American Fotografîa, APA/NY and International Photography Awards (IPA), and was nominated for the Henri Cartier-Bresson Award in 2019.
