Andrej Balco’s ‘Domesticas’ is a photographic project that explores the interaction between wealthy Brazilians and their domestic servants. Balco used a medium format camera and artificial illumination to capture these servants, their houselords and their common environment.
According to Balco, a crucial component to ‘Domesticas’ was the element of choice in the domestic workers he photographed: “I was attempting to create a portrait of them in their domestic or work environment, in the position that they had chosen themselves.”
What's Driving This Trend
- Photographic Documentation of Domestic Workers
- Opportunity for disruptive innovation in using photography to shed light on the relationship between domestic workers and their employers.
- Exploring Power Dynamics in Household Relationships
- Potential for disruptive innovation in studying and understanding the power dynamics between wealthy individuals and their domestic servants.
- Medium Format Photography in Social Commentary
- Disruptive innovation opportunity in using medium format photography to capture and convey social issues like the interaction between domestic workers and their employers.
Who This Affects Most
- Photography
- Opportunity for disruptive innovation in the photography industry by creating new techniques or approaches in capturing social issues.
- Sociology and Anthropology
- Disruptive innovation potential in the field of sociology and anthropology by studying and analyzing power dynamics in household relationships.
- Human Resources and Employment
- Opportunity for disruptive innovation in the human resources and employment sector by reevaluating and improving the working conditions and dynamics for domestic workers.
