Foto e resistência: a fotografia produzida pelo MST/BA como resposta à criminalização

Abstract

Bahia suffers from constant conflicts over land, which result in extensive photographic production on the subject, especially in relation to the work of the MST. This research aims to demonstrate the importance of photography in the struggle for land, especially that produced by the MST in Bahia. This objective is pursued through: bibliographical surveys on the importance of photography in image formation, surveys of the history of the MST's relationship with photography, discussion of the photographic production made by the media on the subject, conceptualization of criminalization and its relationship with the press, a survey of the photographs produced by the MST's communication in 2022 and, finally, photographic analysis. The methodology used consisted of explanatory research, i.e. bibliographical surveys were carried out on the subject, as well as image analysis, which was methodologically based on the categories present in the connoted message addressed by Barthes (1990): pose, object and photogenicity. Based on the results and discussions presented, it is considered that the photography produced by the MST has cultural and informational importance and is configured as a response to the criminalization movement carried out by the press. Self-representation thus shows the positive contribution of the MST to society through an internal vision.