Como se faz um deserto (The making of a desert) brings together the production of a photograph series in a publication with registers of a trip made through Brazil’s hinterlands. The work began with a journey through the region, aiming to understand what would define Brazil’s backlands in terms of cartography, through map analysis, and in terms of language and history.

The publication gathers the working process documentation through photographs and texts that were produced during and after the trip. The book also includes essays by the authors: Janaína Amado, Gonçalo M. Tavares and research by Ângela Ferreira, Yuri Simonini, and George Dantas, texts that are fundamental for the contemporary thought about the Brazilian hinterlands (sertões).

Como se faz um deserto also presents the dialogue with the curator Cristiana Tejo, who goes back to the project’s origins and the work process, and counts with the work by Vitor Cesar, an artist who created with graphic design a fundamental visual discourse for the book.

Project realized with the support of FUNARTE’s Visual Arts Production Incentive Grant in 2013.