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The Baptist, from the A Conversão de São Paulo series

For his “A Conversão de São Paulo” series, Evan Baden traveled to São Paulo, Brazil and worked with adolescent parishioners from a local church to recreate biblical stories. This image is an interpretation of Jesus’s baptism by John the Baptist. Instead of portraying the scene in a river as told in the bible, Baden places his models in a blue swimming pool, wearing present-day clothing to illustrate the relationship between the evangelical church and the rapidly evolving popular culture in São Paulo, both of which hold sway in the lives of young Brazilians today. The country is currently in a state of flux, shifting from its colonial roots in Catholicism to its current global emergence as an ec...
2013
Inkjet print
42.0 x 95.0in
Image and text © Museum of Contemporary Photography, 2017

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