youth

Projeto Axé is a NGO that uses all branches of art to create what they call the pedagogy of desire. To awaken in those young people in Salvador/Bahia/Brasil their self esteem and to be a mean to social change, and to promote the ethics through estetics. Axé is the result of a dream from Cesare La Roca, and talian that moved to Brazil and founded the organisation that has worked with over 15 thous children over the years, and work with about 1000 per year.

My journey into the heart of Orchard Beach began out of a desire to focus on stories closer to home. The proximity of a real story is often right at our fingertips. As we walk through the hallways of our apartments, pass our neighbors at the coffee shop, and brush shoulders against strangers in the subway, I have often wondered who these people are, these passing lives with unspoken gestures. Sometimes you can gather a glimpse of their story in the second when you hold their gaze. At other times you are presented merely with a stolid mask as people strip their emotions from peering eyes.