Leonardo Coelho

Photojournalist
   
BIG CHOP
Location: Rio de Janeiro
Nationality: Brasil
Biography: Journalist and Photographer, I tell stories that are embedded in my mind and heart. My eyes, ears and hands do the rest, while my mouth serves just to show the world what is happening. Based in Rio, I have been working in journalism since 2013.... MORE
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BIG CHOP
Copyright Leonardo Coelho 2024
Updated Nov 2016
Location Rio de Janeiro
Topics Activism, Beauty, Civil Rights, Discrimination, Latin America, Photography, Photojournalism
Politics, beauty, sisterhood, friendship, black community. Those are key words to understand the big chop that Afro-Brazilian women are making in the country known for its injustice and masked prejudice. From rap to entrepreneurship, black women and men are trying to rethink and re-do the ways in which blackness is showned, viewed and interpreted in Brazilian society. The "big chop" is the act of cutting off all of your relaxed hair, leaving only the natural hair. It is viewed today as political option that many women and men do to take a stand on beauty standards and to reaffirm themselves.


Part of this project was published on Newsweek nov 18 2016 and was  supported by the GroundTruth Project, a nonprofit media organization dedicated to social justice reporting
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