Imagens fotojornalísticas da pandemia: a construção de imaginários, leituras e narrativas

Abstract

What do the journalistic photographs produced in the Covid-19 pandemic make us think about? What do they show us about this time? How do the images testify the existences of the present time? These questions drive the research that aims to reflect on photojournalistic images produced during the pandemic of the new coronavirus, understanding its communicative powers through the narratives and imaginaries present in these images. The research cut is a series of twelve photographs entitled "Death in the Household: The explosion of deaths in manauaras homes at the height of the Covid-19 epidemic in Amazonas," by photojournalist Yan Boechat, winner of the 2020 Vladimir Herzog Journalistic Award for Amnesty and Human Rights. I use as methodology the Research Based on Art (PBA) and I seek to raise the dialogue and the sharing of ideas that fertilize an open field in Communication: here photography besides being an investigative place is also a place of happening, of experience, of narrative, of poetry and fabrication. For this writing I turn to authors of photography studies as Roland Barthes (1962;1984), Vilém Flusser (2009) and Susan Sontag (2003), of image and imaginary as Gaston Bachelard (2000) Georges Didi-Huberman (2012) and of the methodological exercise of arts- based research with Gilles Deleuze (1992; 2008), Rita L. Irwin (2013) and Maria Cristina Diederichsen (2019). Finally, from the debates around the theoretical foundations, the artistic- experimental processes and the analyses to the photographs, I could glimpse new forms of study with and from images, allying Communication to Art.