2#
the number two
2# credits: Founders: Gloria Giangrande, Susanna Luna Bellandi Editors: Susanna Luna Bellandi,Gloria Giangrande Photos: Dario Garofalo,Don Brodie, Filippo Brandini, Gabriele Galimberti, Giancarlo Barzagli, Juan Zevallos, Manuela Costa Lima,Martina Giammaria, Massimo Faccini, Miss Kaplan,Rachel m. Wolf,Rebecca Smith, Riccardo Bernardi,Silvia Serina, Vincent Gillian. Illustrations and paintings:Claudio Parentela,Mad Kime, Lorenzo Pacini. Words: Gloria Giangrande, Susanna Luna Bellandi Cover by: Vincent Gillian. Where:Trust Me magazine,Firenze,Italia For Info or submission: info@trustmemagazine.com /www.trustmemagazine.com Advertising/ for all advertising inquires contact: info@trustmemagazine.com
The Number
2
In This and in the next page: ph.Vincent Gillian
The “Number Two” is not a number like the others. The “two” is a prime number, but we have rightly chosen to represent the second issue. the choice of that theme was so obvious to thrown us into crisis. The “two” is a prime number, the “Issue Number Two” should be an “unique” number. two is a magic and perfect number, which can also bewildered and frightened a little bit. The double suggests infinite possibilities: how many of us would had a little sister have had an imaginary friend, a double identity, an alter ego? According to some studies the concept of psychoanalysis is present in two defense mechanisms such as splitting and dissociation. Personally, we already struggle to manage one only identity, but the little sisters are cute. And what about the ubiquity? division between space and time, it is the dream of many people. And although for now is still only a dream, thanks to the eyes and images of our contributors even in this issue, we tried to be in several places at once. The two is the sign of the clash, the duality of opposites, good and evil, black and white, day light and dark. We do not want to do as the neo hippie who begin to speak of the ying and yang and how opposites are intimately fused and necessary to the existence of each other. There, now we did. (But some of the pictures published are the real testimony of how this happens many times.)The two rapresents also the paradox. The number two is the bettert to describe the exclusive and unique relationship of a couple of lovers or friends, a duet perfectly tuned. And many of the published images tell the nuances of this relationship.We also wanted to involve the geeks, with some beautiful representation of binary code, but apart from the one you see at the bottom, we did not succeed. Will be for next time. On the other hand they have to think about serious things, not like us.For its second edition Trust Me Mag joined more than twenty new artists from a lot of different places.For this second release trust me Mag decided to propose a bit peculiar format. To read it you have to split the page once, then twicw and then another tim...and please do not say that, at the end of the day,it is just a posters! before storing it in your bookcase you shouls also give a look at the “Twins’ reports”, with very beautiful(and amusing) pictures about the twins, and at selection of shots by Ivan Cazzola, a photographer who we particularly love, and that from today, if you didn’t know him, you will love too... no way.Once again... Trust me or just what you see
Ph.Rebecca Smith
ph.Martina Giammaria
bra/ TER ET BANTINE/ skirt/ TER ET ANTINE/ jacket/ GIULIANO FUJIWARA
on the left & right:ph.Silvia Serina
Manuela Costa Lima “The pictures were taken with a Mamiya 7 II, in daylight, about a month ago in my old house where I lived with two other persons. It is a portrait of me with my former roommate and friend Marta. Everybody has always exchanged each other, although a little similar. We spent the same places for a while, schools of photography, local, friends and no one has ever really learned who was called Marta and who Martina. After a year that we knew each other we discovered to be born the same day, October 4th. When we lived together, her mother phoned at home and thought I was her .. These photos are a kind of gift to our friendship and perhaps something that prevents us from losing contact, now that we no longer live together.”
Nei tuoi occhi il mare nei miei occhi tu
The 5 pics on the right:ph.Miss Kaplan
Aposelene
Rebecca Smith, 2009
shirt / HAUTE/ pants / LES HOMMES / belt / TER ET BANTINE
On The Left: body / TER ET BANTINE / jacket / TER ET BANTINE / shoes / HAUTE On The Right; bra / TER ET BANTINE / shirt / LES HOMMES /skirt / HAUTE
Martina Giammaria
“The images are from an artist book I made of a year-long project I did with my little sister, who lives quite far away from me. There’s a duality both the tension between a closely-collaborating subject and photographer, and also how the two images interact with each other.”
t shirt/CARLO PIGNATELLI /pants / LES HOMMES/ belt / TER ET BANTINE
t-shirt / CIVIDINI / jacket / LES HOMMES
This pic and 3 above:ph.Manu Costa Lima
Bogotà
The pics i’ve sent are the latest i’ve shot and were taken during a trip to bogota, in colombia. i was there to study the system of public transports they’ve created there - the transmilenio. it was a very simple solution of articulated buses combined with the incentive for biking and the creation of many parks. the whole story about bogota interested me a lot and so went i on my summer holidays. the city is really amazing and i just felt more than ever to look at it throgh calvino lenses. so every day i would just pick up an alleatory page of the book and search for that city in one shot. that was really nice and i’ll do it another time here in my city, sao paulo.
PHOTOGRAPHER: Riccardo Bernardi (riccardobernardi.com) STYLIST: Dafne Kim MODEL: Mara Mezvevere @ Future Models Milano ( www.futuremodels.it )
Alessandro Calabrese
Lorenzo Pacini
above & Below
Bi-det
Double
Right:dress/ TER ET BANTINE/
他们与你同在 Tian Zuquingh
Ph. Riccardo Bernardi
Ph.Massimo Faccini
“Ernst Thälmann a Berlino e un supereroe simile a Capitan America a Santa Cruz, Tenerife.”
This pic and 2 below: Double Ill. Mad Kime
1st, 3rd, 6th photos 6th, 7th, 8th Photo (Both models, tara with peeling face) Tara: Top: Lilli Piache/Leather Cuffs: Lucia Odescalchi/ Skirt: Free People/ Shannon: Top: Loris Diran/Blazer: Zara/Necklace: Vintage/Bracelet: Forever 21/Skirt: Lilli Piache/Shoes: Vintage
Gallo
2nd photo (both models by lightboard) Tara: Dress: Lilli Piache/Earrings: Lucia Odescalchi/ Bracelet: Express /Gloves: Vintage/ Shoes: Eidia Lush Shannon:Dress: Lilli Piachez/ Necklace: Carrie Weidner (I made it)/Bracelet: Forever 21/Shoes: Eidia Lush
Valtour village on the Red Sea. Loneliness is a contagious disease, according to recent studies sticks as fever, infection after infection and society is disintegrating, in the literal sense of the word: dis-integrates. Two is the lowest common denominator of the human being, under which one becomes like 65 years old at the age of 25, grumbling against your coetaneous that crackle and celebrate.
Sedentary lifestyle make you fat, the office makes you hunched, who uses the gym as palliative subtracts hours of light to your metereopaty, the social ladder you said you would do and with whom to pick up silly girls when you was a teenager, offering as a lender high interest which would be accrued together with you, slowed alarmingly parallel to your metabolism since you signed your first internship contract. Being alone is sad, you can read in all the forums of desperate under xanax in dump, in the hollow eyes of all a bald fat man with a mephitic breath that you can find in every post office or bank of this world, in the artificial nail glitter of all divorced workers will smile to you during a merengue class in a last minute
So don’t waste your time reading my crap and look at all the cool things on this magazine, these people are around taking pictures, drawing, living, while you unattractive as a nerd in front in front of facebook and you 450 facebook friends that you actually ashamed even to say hello on the street. So exit, attends, participates. The world, will know, will alway be a shitty cesspool but, at least, you won’t be alone to face it. You’ll be two. it’s hard to say but I have to admit it, and in principle I hate a concept quoting a spot of ice cream, really: “Two is better than one”. “You say?” “I say what you want, as long as you take off the balls, I want to do and handjob, get out.”
4th photo (Yellow dress) Earrings: Ralph by Ralph Lauren/Necklaces: Vintage/Dress: Loris Diran/ Shoes: Miu Miu 5th photo(both models by lightboard) Tara: Dress: Lilli Piache/Earrings: Lucia Odescalchi/ Bracelet: Express/Gloves: Vintage/ Shoes: Eidia Lush Shannon: Dress: Lilli Piache/ Necklace: Carrie Weidner (I made it)/Bracelet: Forever 21/Shoes: Eidia Lush 7th photo (Shannon by lightboard) Shirt: Club Monaco /Dress: Sheila Frank/Shoes: Vintage
Text by Dario Cappelli
from left to right: Hybridyzation: Tuttugu,Svan Ph.Kroppslotion
Ph. Alexander Kostinskyi on the right and above
Ph.Filippo Brandini
Ph.Juan Zevallos
below: When Love Begins
illustr.Claudio Parentela
to Be one, to be lonely individuals,to feel complete, occupying a satisfactory place in our own self-esteem is a utopian project. Loneliness is painful, challenging, forcing you to reflect and be reflected in the mirror questioning on the number of hair that falls in inverse proportion to the wrinkles that appear on what was once a smooth, beardless surface and now has a proliferation of hair ten times higher than the growth of HIV in third world countries. Loneliness is your worst envious colleague that highlights all centers that have not scored in your life.
on the right:Double
Ph.Giancarlo Barzagli
Mitroviza
Ph.Ylenia Arca
by Don Brodie
above: untitled
on the right and up:ph.Silvia Serina
Models: Tara Wallace (Independent Management) Shannon Rusbuldt (unsigned/ switching agencies)
ODD DOLLS STORY
from left to right: double, Aerial Initial, strats, separationa ph.Rachel M. Wolfe
Mitroviza Kosovo, at different times of the day, in two different parts of the city, one in northern, Serb and the other southern, Albanian.
Photo grapher: Don Brodie Wardrobe: Carrie Weidner Make-up: Natalie Thomas Hair: Candice Crawford
ph.Vincent Gillian
Cazzola retrospettiva
A selection of shots from the Ivan Cazzola’s portfolio, about couples, symmetries, double identities.
Twins
Dario Garofalo
Report con foto di :
Gabriele Galimberti, Dario Garofalo
The subject of the photos- that we have included in this double page-are twins, I found them in Sicily, while I was making a documentary on an extinct volcano on which there are been planted wind turbines. “ Dario Garofalo
Candido Godoi, la città dei gemelli Gabriele Galimberti
Candido Godoi Terras des Gemeos
Dall’alto in senso orario: Giovane e Gean Theisen, 16 anni/ Maira e Maiara Kotowsky, 12 anni/ Marçio e Marçelo Royer, 26 anni/ Fernanda Joung, 4 anni/ Editte Kotz,54 anni/ Elisabeth/ Irineu Thofsetz, 57 anni. Nella pagina a fianco: Taiana Lermen, 28 anni,/ Elisiane e Eliane Nunes, 23 anni.
Ivan Cazzola
Kroppslotion
Filippo Brandini
Dario Garofalo
Don Brodie
Rebecca Smith
Miss Kaplan
Tian Zhuquing
Vincent Gillian
Riccardo Bernardi
Mad kime
Giancarlo Barzagli
ivancazzola.co.uk/ Ivan is a very good photographer. And while this fact would suffice.He always can come a little closer to things than you could ever do. He takes impudent, insolent, ironic fun and amusing pictures to people who met 5 minutes before. He reminds us ‘Weegee a little bit because he portrays, models, artists, musicians, but also gypsy, prostitutes, trannies and femmes fatale with uncommon points of views. He shoot fashion photography for international brands and magazines.
kroppslotion.altervista.org/ is the name of a cheap IKEA’s body lotion. Giovanni is a Sardinian boy who some years ago decided to buy this one pound 94 cents lotion , attracted by the colors of the bottle. But the product manifested its quality with an endless series of red spots on its body. After being discovered allergic, John decided to transform kroppslotion in his alter-ego. graduated in foreign languages, he has always loved photography, polaroid in particular. His main project is hybridization:heads mixed with bodies, with incomprehensible IKEA ispired names.
filippobrandini.com/ Born in Florence 25 years ago, Filippo started to take pictures almost by accident. After winning the Viami Persona Contest in Helsinki, Finland He has cooperated with the Jade magazine and other Italian photo studies, devoting himself to his major interests: the architecture photography and “urban explorations”. He is currently working in the Ivo von Renner’s studio in Hamburg, Germany.
dariogarofalo.com Dario is a photographer and a graduated sociologist at the same timeIt’s been the interest for the social narration to bring him to analyze suburbs never abandoning a curious and ironic tone toward the subjects he is portraying. The Reportage photography, created mainly in its territory, is joined woth the commercial photography and the organization of events and workshops, like the Relived project, where an old abandoned factory has become a space for visual events and video installations.
donbrodie.com/ Starting as a student of film and media production, then moving on visual arts, Don has always kept alive her deep interest in photography. The cinema has always been one of his main references, even when he used friends and family as subjects. The desire to follow his favorite photographers’ footsteps Irving Penn, Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin, among the sacred cows, but also Steven Meisel, Nick Knight, and Alix Malka, prompted him to leave Wahington to New York. Now he works the Parsons School and that’s just the beginning..
rebecca-smith.net/ She lives and works in Brisbane Australia, and by now she is the farthest artist with whom we have never worked. And the fact of having won a piece of Oceania make us very happy. Returning to Rebecca she is benn graduated in photography two years ago at the Queensland College of Art and she is currently studing for the MA. He has participated in several group exhibitions and published photography books, including “Aposelene” from which the images edited in Trust Me come from.
flickr.com/photos/ miss_kaplan Natalie “Miss” Kaplan is a young Israeli photographer who remains fascinated by whatever is around her. Her pictures are never trivial because at the first sight to you can’t understand why they are so special, and just watching them carefully you can discover the hidden irony and sense of wonder. She has a vast collection of images and photo projects on Flickr. We haven’t had the opportunity to see them all yet.
tian.zhuquing@isiadesign.fi.it She is a young Chinese illustrator, who after graduating in his country,cames to Florence to study in the same school where we have been. We would like to know more about her, maybe once we will take a coffee with her and then we will update her profile, we promise!
flickr.com/photos/vinnygillan/ We don’t know anything about Vincent, Vinny, Gillian.. It’s enough to say that we found his works so intriguing to pubblish them as 1st and 4th cover. And at the end of the day the photos are the only thing that should interest us.
riccardobernardi.com/ He’s a fashion photographer and a wiz to capture the light giving expressiveness and intensity to his portraits. His fashion shoots are so natural they seem stolen from a backstage, he can balance in a perfect way the blacks and the whites, the full and the empty spaces. Look at the shots we published to believe.
myspace.com/madkime He born 25 years ago in the beautiful Maremma country. You can recognize him from the unmistakable walk He is a writer, a graphic designer and what else? Madkime is looking for an own style of illustration and communication, that he can adapt to different techniques and media ... his work always starts with a simple sketch to develop in various locations ...
40thousand.net/ He born 29 years ago and he lives in a small village in the mountains close to Florence, in the meantime he makes reportages around the world. He has followed the last presidential election in the U.S. that led to victory for Obama and in recent years He has been many times in Kosovo to document the delicate transition towards independence. With two other photojournalists he has created a collective 40thousand, looking for new stories to tell.
Juan Zevallos
Rachel Wolfe
Massimo Faccini
Martina Giammaria
Manuela Costa lima
Lorenzo Pacini
Ana Kras
Sylvain Emmanuel P.
Ylenia Arca
Dario Cappelli
Alexander Kostinskyi
Gabriele Galimberti
whiskii.com.ar/ he is an Argentinian photographer who lives and works in Buenos Aires collaborating with several magazines, including the interesting Yo no me imagine nada. he doesn’t just take pictures, but he reinterprets and mixes them up to create composite pop collage. From his photos it seems like he really enjoys life.
rachelwolfe.com/ She is 26 years, graduated in art, photographer and poet, Living around Chicago Rachel mainly reflects on the spaces, landscapes, rivers and on the light. “My photographic and poetic work explore polarities, dualities and juxtapositions.” Says Rachel. And we thought she was perfect for the theme of this issue.
flickr.com/photos/faccini_photography/ Massimo is a student of architecture, but first of all a photographer. He lives in Parma and He portrays shy girls while they are bicycling or walking in the fields. They have long, curly hair, short dresses, country, rock, retro style or sometimes they are simply naked. Whatever the context is, He can return to her thay natural spontaneity.
martinagiammaria.com/ Born in 34 years ago, She works and lives in Rome, and describes herself in that way: “Victim of chaser and dazzles, and the interim live on the wrong road. Permanently until a flash blinds me. “ She has collaborated with several photographic magazines on and offline. She has shooted many fashion services, but she is the intimacy the theme she finds more interesting. For Trust Me magazine she has submitted a photo tribute to a long friendship.
flickr.com/photos/cidades_invisiveis/ She is a student of architecture that currently lives in São Paulo,In this issue She presents a photographic reportage on Bogota. The urban space is her object of its analysis, her sources of inspirationa are: Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, the photographer Takashi Homma and its relationship with Tokyo and the photographer Mark Borthwick. Manuela has created a blog: Around the day in eighty words ( 80worlds.tumblr.com), a compilation of the photographers that she loves on flickr.
lorenzopacini.net/ hyper-realist painter, with a strong irreverent vein, He imagines objects, statues, people, all portrayed with the same plastic strength.The painting we present comes from the series, My home, your home.“The traces of human beings resurface here and there, while the innocent drawings of a child, stuck to the fridge, remind us that we live among our objects. Or vice versa.
anakras.com/ Ana was born in Belgrade 26 years ago and she is one of that person that always succeed in the things she do. Ana started as an illustrator (she collaborated with Kawasaki and Vice Magazine), but sheis also a designer and a photographer. Ana has a recognizable and delicate style, but she always manages to put something extra in her projects, an hidden meaning that makes them special.
tryitillyoumakeit. com/ “Try it until you make it” Sylvain’s blog tells. so Silvayn is doing in his numerous projects where He combines and experiments photography and publishing graphic to obtain hybridized and fascinating products. Born 34 years ago, Parisian, graduated in architecture, He decided to combine in work his two greatest passions: space and photography.
flickr.com/photos/ylenia/ She is Venetian photographer and a tireless traveler. The landscapes, the architecture and the pastel colors are her favorite subjects. Besides a beautiful reportage about Tenerife, Ylenia shoot fashion portraits with blurred tones.
myspace.com/victorleopardo Dario draws. He design clothes and accessories for business. He draws sarcastic comics for his own and his friends’ pleasure. Victor writes. He writes stories that don’t spare anyone, not even himself, and Hilarious fragments of life. Dario and Victor are 2 sides of the same person that togheter are our favorite cynical. but we know that, at the end of the day, he loves us.
flickr.com/photos/ alex_kostinsky/ 4470465380/ He is a young photographer from Kiev, Ukraine. He never abandons its analog SLR. Sometimes is pop and grotesque, sometimes he has the lightness of a young Ryan Mc Ginley (on the other hand He has only 22 years old) sometimes He has the rawness of a reportage photographer. Beauty and decadence merge in every picture, sometimes ironically and sometimes in a disturbing and quite incomprehensible way.
gabrielegalimberti.it/ born in Arezzo 33 years ago, Gabriele studied photography at the Fondazione Studio Marangoni in Florence. He began working for several fashion brands and magazines, but his interest has moved increasingly towards travel photography and reportage. He has realized a two books about Texas and one iabout Beijing and his photographs have been published in several international journals including: Le Monde, George, Vanity Fair, Io Donna.
Silvia Serina
flickr.com/ photos/36057542@N06/ She is a 24 year old student of graphic design, fahionistas, photographer by passion, She creates visionary and surreal portraits and shooting. She works studies blogs in Florence.
Claudio Parentela
claudioparentela.com He is an underground artist, a illustrator, a photographer, a collagist and much more. He mixes styles, medias, colors in an absolutely free way. Basically He do what he liks. He has a website that seems to be directly from the ‘80s or from a very distant future in which all our aesthetic references will not be worth anything.
Alessandro calabrese
flickr.com/photos/ztona Alessandro aka Mr. Ztona, born in Trento and currently lives and studies in Venice. He shoots very intense portraits to girls who never lowers their gaze. He says of himself: live badly ,photograph worse. But we do not seem the case to throw down.
Candido Godoi Terras des Gemeos
“Welcome to Candido Godoi, the city of twins, a village where everything is double and where weighs the legacy of Joseph Mengele, the nazist Dr.death. Gabriele Galimberti, photographer and Paul Manzo journalist have lived there a week to find out more about the mystery that gravity over this village of 6,000 inhabitants. “ It is not easy to get to Candido Godoi in the deep south of Brazil: 18 hours by bus from Sao Paulo, then a taxi, because there aren’t open lines of communication. Godoi is a pearl, is a happy island, which seems to not belong to Brazil. At Candido Godo everyone is blonde with blue eyes, and they are all, or almost, twins. Certainly the percentage than the national average is quite surprising and is around 1000%, or twins every five shares of a total of six thousand inhabitants.
Ph.1_The Mengele’s residence during the time spent in Candido Godoi 2_ The bedroom, 3_ Children of the school of San Pedro.
gory Peck) and his pursuit by the protagonist Ezra (Lawrence Olivier). According to the story Mengele, would continue in this country its research on the Aryan race interupted in Germany, arriving there with a flap of skin and blood samples of Adolf Hitler, from which He’s like to clone many children identical to the Fuhrer. A terrible movie that has a real and dramatic corresponding in the experiments that Mengele had led up to ‘45. At Candide Godo nobody likes to talk about Mengele, the twins, many of them dizygotic and non-identical, reject their connection with Nazism and the “explanations” given by science seem much more plausible. So the village, eager to get rid of this uncomfortable connotation, has asked the government in conducting research on the subject. The research was conducted by geneticist Lavinia Schuler-Faccini of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Research has sunk into the past of the community trying to build a database of genes by analysis of baptismal certificates since 1927, a source that in a Catholic town as Candide Godoi allow to monitor more than 75% of births, The high incidence of twins is given a cross to the presence of Mengele, the twinning was present from the early decades of the century and shows no peaks in growth during the stay of the angel of death. According Faccini not even now there
to know more about it: _I gemelli di Mengele by Paolo Manzo, ph. Gabriele Galimberti blog.panorama.it/mondo/tag/candido-godoi/ 3 Febbraio 2010 _Nazi angel of death Josef Mengele ‘created twin town in Brazil’ by Nick Evans Telegraph_21 Jan 2009 _“Nazi Twins” a Myth: Mengele Not Behind Brazil Boom? by Brian Handwerk National Geographic News November 25, 2009
A Candido Godoi, City of twins, the duality is at every street corner. Double is the symbol of the country: two faces in profile, double are even the languages. Besides the Portuguese in everyday life is accompanied by the Hunsrückisch, a dialect spoken by the first German immigrants arrived in this area in late 19th century and remained essentially unchanged since then. The city has also a dual nature of ‘farming community and the land of twins’, and at the center of town there is also a museum that celebrates this kind of sibilings: The implications of this local peculiarities were sought in the science, in the environmental conditions, to sink into the darkest chapters in the history of the last century. And at this point the problems start, or rather, reveal the controversial aspects of this twin town, thar is located in the center of Brazil, but that looks like a Bavarian village. Jorge Camarasa, Argentine historian specializing in World War II wanted to know more about it. The book “Mengele, the angel of death in South America “ collects his research to determine the route of escape to South America Medical Third Reich, made largely through field analysis and interviews with the population. And so the Guinness curiosity have been replaced by a disturbing historical perspectives. “I think that Candido Godoi was the new Joseph Mengele ‘s open-air laboratory, where he could nourish the dream of a master race with blue eyes and blond hair,” Camarasa says. A grotesque and terrible legend, passed down through a few faded photos, is the Mrs. Schmitt’s one that was double as well, because she had two heads and a single body. Mrs. Schmitt was born with two heads. “With one she talked, listened with the other. with one she was sad, with the other happy.” But even with this Deformities She coul lead a normal life working as a seamstress and moving to the big city of Curitiba. Camarasa says that Mengele, arrived in Argentina in ‘45 under an assumed name, found work as a farmer. However, due to the capture of Adolf Eichmann, Nazi ruthless hierarch, by Israeli agents, Mengele would have gone off taking refuge in the German enclave of Colonias
Unidas in Paraguay. From there he started to visit the German communities beyond the borders of Brazil during the first years of ‘60s, covering his tracks few years after until his death in 1979 in Bertioga, Brazil. Once in Brazil, according to Argentine historian,He began to conduct genetic experiments on animals that were extremely successful among citizens of Candido Godoi because he was able to increase the number of animals in local farms rapidly. From that, to move to human experiment would be up shortly. The twins, on the other hand, had always been one obsessions of the doctor since the college years during which he became a supporter of the Professor Otmar von Verschuer’s theories who argued that the key to the creation of the Aryan race could be found in the twins’ biological system. And the relationship between genetic experiments and Brazil
already had a previous case in relation to the book of Camarasa in 1978 released the controversial film “The Boys from Brazil”, J. Franklin Schaffner and based on the novel by Ira Levin, who talked about the flight of Josef Mengele (Gregory Peck) and his pursuit by the protagonist Ezra (Lawrence Olivier). According to the story Mengele, would continue its research on the Aryan race started in Germany, arriving in the south american country with a flap of skin and blood samples of Adolf Hitler, from which many children to clone identical to the Fuehrer. And the relationship between genetic experiments and Brazil had a previous case in relation to the Camarasa’s book in 1978 when was released the controversial film “The Boys from Brazil” by J. Franklin Schaffner and based on the novel by Ira Levin, who talked about the flight of Josef Mengele (Gre-
is a significant downward trend (This was however refuted by some scientists that show a progressive decline in births twins),however that would be inevitable, says Gary Steinman, an expert on twins at Long Island Jewish Medical Center: “Even if Mengele had a drug that induces ovulation, would take effect only for a generation” and among other things “is not yet known someone in that era was aware of the genetic code, or that had the ability to alter genes in order to make certain inherited genetic traits, such as the “twins”. The causes might otherwise be sought in environmental factors: the presence of folic acid in water sources in the area, the identification of particular minerals in the soil or the diet of the inhabitants, in which is frequent consumption of dairy products. Another reason may simply be inherent in the closure outside the village community, or the
“Founder effect” as defined by Bruno Reversade, an expert on twins University of Singapore, who has studied similar cases, but not so famous , Nigeria and Romania. To confirm this theory the highest concentration of “ double” births is registered in the Linha São Pedro district about 10 km from the center by Candido Godoi, where in the 80 houses of the village, live 44 pairs of twins. The proneness to multiple births of the first inhabitants of the area combined with total isolation in which these people lived,has meant that the factor twins did not go to disappear. The assumptions are varied, but by now they are only hypotheses and, as says Anita de Flores da Silva, physician and former mayor of the city, “once again they will not get anywhere.” Da Silva is the first one to fully analyze the issue, evenbefore Camarasa. Digging in the memory of fellow former mayor he has stumbled several times in the itinerant doctor, remembered as the kind and respected Dr. Weiss. “In memory of so many women - said De Silva Camarasa - he was a doctor who went around from house to house, took care of varicose veins and handing out bottles of potions and pills ... sometimes he was even a dentist and he withdrewed blood to patients. “ Somebody says that he worked alone, others that he was been followed by his medical team. They say he traveled around the villages of the area tseeking Aryan families, like the Jair’s one, Jair,the father of Kitana and Tahuana, five years old twins, that comes from the Saar region on the border between France and Germany. The rumors about this mane are as many as the citizens are, everyone, especially older ones, have their own story to tell.”He asked us which diseases had our animals and told us not to worry because he could cure all of them, He seemed respectable and highly educated,” says the elder Aloisi Finkler. Leonard Boufler, another farmer only, remember the promises of Weiss. “He said he could provide artificial insemination for humans and animals, and we believed in him. Only now I realize that in these years he was the only one to claim to be able to do so.”This and many other stories confirm that Mengele was originally presented himselfas a veterinarian. It’s still a mystery whether the exceptional number of twins of the cows in the region is to be connected to the same human phenomenon. “Joseph Mengele spent more than a night here,” says Wilson Schwerner, always under the pseudonym of Rudolph Weiss. Others in the neighboring towns talk about him as a strange man, still locked in a sort of home-laboratory. Different names, but a unmistakable face. In every interview, showing a portrait of Mengele, the clear answer: “he’s him”. Others tells about a curandero, a figure between science and superstition, who presented to local people,including women, a mysterious tea, along with a cure for cuts. Other witnesses remember him as a peddler of clothing, others as a dentist who went around the region with a van, making blood collection and transfusions. It’s said that this doctor has teached to the local population the technique of the self-transfusion, still practiced in this area. So the Mengele’s specter continues to wander the streets and farms of this small country and this presence is difficult to handle and pass. The present time sounds more attractive for young guys of Candido Godoi who prefer to think of their future, the local football team, to become chemists or models, to move to a big city compared to confront the past, distant in time and space, but that continually resurfaces in their facial features, in their language, in the traditions of the community. The statistics say that the rate of twin births has decreased, as is fading the memory and interest in the people that live here.
Pics description: 001_Taiana Lermen
002- Elisiane e Eliane Nunes
003_Giovane e Gean Theisen
004_Maira e Maiara Kotowsky
005_Marçio e Marçelo Royer
006_Fernanda Joung
007_Editte Kotz
008-Elisabeth
009_Irineu Thofsetz
28 years, photographed with her daughters Kiara and Yasmine, born on Christmas Eve 2008. The mother is with her daughters in the kitchen of her small house in San Pedro, very small village of Candide Godo in Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil.
23 years, respectively nicknamed Nane and Preta. Elisiana works as a cleaning lady, Eliane is an housewife. Both are married and have two children.
16 years, photographed n Campinas riding their bikes. They are sons of a musician and teacher. Giovane studied pharmacy Gean studied computer science.
12 years of Polish origin, photographed on the car of the father Adair, soybean farmer and breeder of dairy cows. Maira wants become a supermodel, Maiara an informatics
26 years old, both fans dell’International of Porto Alegre they are photographed in the cornfield behind their house. Marcelo is a farmer with his father, while Mark works in the only company in the country, KF Filhos.
4 years, photographed behind the house holding the photo of the two brothers Karl and Otto born a few weeks ago.
54, photographed in the street outside his house holding pictures of their daughters Renata and Regiani. The daughters are studying one pharmacy and the other administration in Santo Angelo, a town 80km from Candide to enjoy.
71. She is the grandmother with 7 pairs of twins. Her family is one of the families with the highest number of twins in town.
57 years, always a farmer and cattle breeder. In his stables cows often give birth pairs of calves. He doesn’t know much about Mengele, but he remember that the father often talked about a good German veterinarian.
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