Entrevista Washington Post Photoblog
- Ian Cheibub
- 27 de out. de 2024
- 1 min de leitura
A probing look at evangelicalism in Brazil
Brazilian photographer Ian Cheibub’s project “Golgotha” is a probing look at the rise of evangelicalism in Brazil. In his project statement, Cheibub asks:
“What do a former drug dealer who was converted in jail, an indigenous person from Maranhão who was once addicted to alcohol and drugs, a minister of state who claims to have seen Jesus in a Guava tree, and a millionaire Youtube pastor who owns a conglomerate of churches and officiated the president’s marriage have in common? ”
The answer to Cheibub’s question is faith, and “their dreams, ambition, and desire for life and opportunity both explains and complexifies the understanding of what it means to be Evangelical in contemporary Brazil.”
“Golgotha,” which has various meanings, including the Hebrew “The Place of the Skull” as well as the biblical hill where Jesus was crucified, is Cheibub’s attempt “to understand the different faces of evangelization in the country. … It looks at the place where the people put their faith, sometimes their money and many others their anguishes and ambitions.”
