Not translatable to the English language, saudade is the core of Camila’s photographs. It’s the love that remains, not quite as deep as grief or as subtle as missing someone. It can exist for something that has passed or it can be the yearning for something that hasn’t happened, and might never exist. Change being the only constant state we live in, if nostalgia met poignant at a bar, in the hometown poignant grew up in, on the street where nostalgia’s ex used to live and they had a one night stand without protection… Saudade would have been born. English speakers can’t translate it, but they certainly feel it, as all humans do.
