I mostly photograph children when I am in Calheta de São Miguel ... Being with them all day long makes me want to "capture" every little moment ... every expression ... and yet, when I have the time to wander around the village streets I love to talk to the working women (who isn't a working woman in Cape Verde?) irrespective of how old they are ... they sometimes don't seem to think about age at all ... all they know is they have worked their way through ... and will have to keep on doing so ... as if there is nothing else they can possibly do ... (could have done) ...
Nha Fancisca, the oldest of the women I have recently photographed still works on the production of cheap "grogue" to sell and looks after a great grand daughter ... the lives of the other women aren't much different ... there is ... resistence ... acceptance ... uncomplaining ... silence in the way they look ... and wherever they look there is a persistent fate that seems to linger on ... the perception that the trajectory of life has not compensated nor will compensate their working efforts ... at least the way they deserve ... but the way is to go forward.
Cape Verdian women are amongst the most enduring and stronger souls I have ever met ... unquestionably the pillars of the Cape Verdian society ...
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