A mesma luta

The photobook "A Mesma Luta" (The Same Fight) comprises 25 black and white photographs of social movements in São Paulo from 1978 to 1984. Photographer Rosa Gauditano (São Paulo, Brasil 1955) documented the ABC strikes, the Custo de Vida (Cost of Living) movement, women's demonstrations such as the murder of Eliane de Grammount, SOS Mulher, the 3 Congresses of the Paulista Woman, the protest of the Mothers of The Plaza de Mayo, the first demonstrations of the Unified Black Movement and the demonstration against the murder of the metallurgist Santo Dias by the police. The edition of this work is focused on this women's struggles and its important role for the change of Brazilian society that culminated in the end of the dictatorship from Diretas Já. Author Rosa Gauditano began her career as a photographer in the 1970s, working for small printing houses from the Imprensa Nanica (journalists who wrote against the ideas of the dictatorship, it was so called because few were the ones who dared to write something against the government given the strong repression), taht include Versus, Movimento and Em Tempo. Later she worked as a hired photographer for Folha de São Paulo and Veja magazine until she founded Studio R where she continues to work to this day.