Maureen Bisilliat, an England-born photographer, arrived in São Paulo in the late 1950s and was a pioneer among women in her profession. Her work, strongly linked with social ties, bridged the gap between Brazilian literature and photography. For the article that gave origin to this work, Maureen crawled through the mud of the river and followed the women who lived off crab catching in the region of Livramento, in the state of Paraíba. Later, she would relate these images with the poem “Dog without feathers” by João Cabral de Melo Neto.