The Expedition

In this experience we will visit the outbacks, known as “sertão” in Brazil. It has a warm climate, undergrowth vegetation, but it can also surprise us, and even be found green and full of life. Over there we'll stay in the rural area of ​​Cabaceiras, a city that has been movie set of many national acclaimed films, such as “Auto da Compadecida”, “Cinema, Aspirinas e Urubus”, and more recently, the Amazon Prime series “Cangaço Novo”, among others. For this reason, it is also known as the Roliúde Nordestina - “Hollywood from Northeast”, a place where real and imaginary stories mingle.

We’ll visit the “Lajedo de Pai Mateus”, a place that seems to be part of another planet. This may sound like a sensationalist magazine headline, but Lajedo has infinite possibilities for incredible photographs and it’s one of those places that you can only realize the magnitude of it once you’re there, walking along the huge rocks, having a spectacular view of the “sertão”, with an orange sunset. A perfect place to disconnect from the world and to inspire us to photograph during our next days.

We are also going to visit some villages of the region, the small leather workshops and the techniques that they have been working for a long.
Leather is a very important source for the locals, as the region has the lowest rainfall in the country and we'll encounter cowboys working the land, guiding cattle across the ranch in their distinctive garb, designed to shield them from the prickly cacti and other thorny vegetation that abounds in the region.