Dear Ana

Name: Dear Ana
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SKU: 9780903696524
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Dear Ana is a lyrical exploration by Leticia Valverdes of her journey back to her grandmother's homeland in Portugal. The project involved a unique collaboration with the villagers of Mundão, Ana's birthplace, who wrote postcards to Valverdes' late grandmother, creating a fictional network of friends during her final battle with Alzheimer's in Brazil. The book weaves together photography, poetic text, cyanotypes, and votive offerings to tell a deeply personal yet universal story of transgenerational trauma, longing, migration, and cultural division.

Set against the backdrop of contemporary Europe's discussions on borders, nationalism, and migration, this work resonates with the complexities of identity and belonging a century later.
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This evocative volume is well suited for readers interested in arts and culture, particularly those drawn to photographic art, poetry, and explorations of heritage and migration. It appeals to those reflecting on family history, cultural identity, and the emotional impact of transgenerational experiences.

Dear Ana is about Leticia's journey back to her grandmother’s motherland, Portugal. It is a collaborative project with the people she encountered in her village of Mundão who were invited to write a postcard to her now dead grandmother. In doing this they became the fictional friends she believed she had whilst dying with Alzheimer's in Brazil.

A lyrical manifestation, expressed through photography and poetic text, of Leticia Valverdes' award-winning project documenting the artist's journey back to her grandmother's motherland of Portugal.

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A lyrical manifestation of Leticia Valverdes' award-winning project that took her on a journey back to Portugal, her grandmother's motherland. This extraordinary project resulted in a magical collaboration with the inhabitants of Ana's birthplace, the village of Mundão.

By inviting the villagers to write a postcard to her now dead grandmother, they became the fictional friends she believed she had whilst dying with Alzheimer's disease in Brazil. Through photography interspersed with poetic text, cyanotypes and votive offerings, this is a personal yet universal story exploring transgenerational trauma, longing, migration, and what it means to feel divided between two cultures.

A hundred years on, this is the perfect time to tell this story, as Europe is engulfed in debates about borders, nationalism and migration.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780903696524

Publisher: Hurtwood Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 02 June 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Hurtwood Press

Illustration: Illustrated throughout

Contributors:

Text by Octavia Bright
Designed by Billie Temple
Text by Ângela Ferreira
Contributions by Leticia Valverdes

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 235.0mm

Weight: 980g

Pages: 240

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Brazil-born Leticia Valverdes studied Fine Art at London Metropolitan University. Her personal photographic work concentrates on interactions with people and often starts with an invitation to participate. Focusing on simple ideas, her work hopes to touch on notions of identity, belonging, memory and dreams.