"Pomegranates" by Photographer Joao Lutz

"Pomegranates is a visual and written response to the resurfacing of a childhood memory of sexual abuse-an experience long buried. The project began shortly after the memory returned and unfolded in real time through photography, poetry, and moments of stillness. The book does not follow a linear narrative. Instead, it moves like memory: fragmented, uncertain, and intimate."

"It is a work about remembering, about naming what was hidden, and about what it means to continue forward while holding both silence and truth. Even though it has just come to the surface recently. I now see how it shaped my urge for making visual memories, the way I relate to others, how I deal with intimacy, and where many of my fears come from."

"Previously based in New York, João Lutz is a photographer and director working in São Paulo. His work moves through portraiture, fashion, and film-drawn to charged atmospheres and the weight a single frame can hold. Pomegranates is a visual and written response to the resurfacing of a childhood memory of sexual abuse-an experience long buried."

João Lutz is a photographer and director based in São Paulo whose work spans portraiture, fashion, and film-like atmospheres. Pomegranates responds to a childhood memory of sexual abuse that resurfaced after being buried for years. The project began soon after the memory returned and unfolded in real time through photography, poetry, and moments of stillness. The book does not follow a linear storyline, instead moving like memory—fragmented, uncertain, and intimate. The work centers on remembering, naming what was hidden, and understanding what it means to move forward while holding both silence and truth.

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