Renan Cepeda

Early last month we told you about the literally brilliant effects behind light graffiti "” a method where artists bomb the environment with colorful traces via flashlights but play the waiting game because they don’t get to see the results until the film is developed "” but get this: The art’s not relegated to the street alone. Actually, more precisely, it’s moved countryside. The Brazilian photographer Renan Cepeda used the very same method of long exposure times, reliance on various sources of light and curlicue movements of torches to bring an added dimension to his photos of three generations of a family living in a quilombo community, the Portuguese name for former runaway slave settlements that still exist today in rural parts of Brazil. The photos, currently on display under the name “Vao das Almas” in Sao Paulo at the Pinacoteca until the end of January, are sublime and electric. If you want to see more photos, click on “Pichacoes” under the “Projects” section on Cepeda’s site.