Photographing hunger

denouncing pouverty through female bodies in Brazil and Colombia

Abstract

Based on a dialogue between the contexts of hunger in Brazil and Colombia, the article promotes a critical review of poverty as a social construct, anchored in colonial legacies and dynamics of exclusion and victimization of women. Using four journalistic images as objects of analysis, the research examines how media coverage of hunger highlights, on the one hand, the feminization of poverty and, on the other, the strategies of survival and reexistence employed by women in contexts of extreme vulnerability. To this end, Rancière's theses on image, consensualism, scenes of dissent and politics are revisited, concluding that, although marked by pain, these images and trajectories reveal powerful ways of coping with precariousness, reconfiguring the field of care and dignity as a collective and insurgent practice.