I think I wasn't even 6 years old, at the time we already knew how to read a little bit. I remember it so well! We were living in London, at my grandma’s. It was just me and my mother at the time, and I remember I was already writing little essays...By the 1950s, I studied painting with Andre Lhote. [André Lhote was a French painter and sculptor] And it wasn’t just that! I came back and I could go to New York, in the same 1950s, it was perhaps the time... [She moved to São Paulo in 1953] ... to get very creative. The work at Bandeirantes Palace is a Crab Catcher. [“Young girl fishing in the mud” is from 1968] This Crab Catcher started because at the time of this photo... I was actually... I was a photojournalist, me, Claudia [Andujar], George Love... And we traveled a lot because we were supposed to. And we saw Audálio Dantas, great journalist, who died recently. We watched a movie: “Os homens do Caranguejo” (“Men of the Crabs”), by Ipojuca Pontes. And here’s what we thought: Wow! Let’s ask permission to produce some piece on this small village, [this work belongs to the series “Crab Catchers”, taken in the inner state of Paraíba] that is in Livramento, in the state of Paraíba. Well, it would be very difficult to get permission to do it because it was a time when there was a lot of censorship regarding what you could and couldn't show in Brazil. It had to be really good... but we made it! [Learn more at: www.acervo.sp.gov.br]