Families of Capoeira

2025

My work functions as resistance by documenting Capoeira not as spectacle, but as living lineage — as family, as pedagogy, as survival. Capoeira was born from resistance. To photograph it today — in kitchens, backyards, community centers, and rodas — is to affirm that its spirit is still shaping futures. I focus on families and children because continuity is power. The act of seeing ourselves — joyful, disciplined, connected — is itself a refusal of erasure.

I invite viewers to step closer: attend a local roda, support community-led cultural spaces, learn the history, bring their children into the circle. Liberation is not abstract — it is practiced, weekly, in community.

Follow their work here: @prigragg