What do the journalistic photographs produced in the Covid-19 pandemic make us think about?
What do they show us about this time? How do the images testify the existences of the present
time? These questions drive the research that aims to reflect on photojournalistic images
produced during the pandemic of the new coronavirus, understanding its communicative
powers through the narratives and imaginaries present in these images. The research cut is a
series of twelve photographs entitled "Death in the Household: The explosion of deaths in
manauaras homes at the height of the Covid-19 epidemic in Amazonas," by photojournalist Yan
Boechat, winner of the 2020 Vladimir Herzog Journalistic Award for Amnesty and Human
Rights. I use as methodology the Research Based on Art (PBA) and I seek to raise the dialogue
and the sharing of ideas that fertilize an open field in Communication: here photography besides
being an investigative place is also a place of happening, of experience, of narrative, of poetry
and fabrication. For this writing I turn to authors of photography studies as Roland Barthes
(1962;1984), Vilém Flusser (2009) and Susan Sontag (2003), of image and imaginary as Gaston
Bachelard (2000) Georges Didi-Huberman (2012) and of the methodological exercise of arts-
based research with Gilles Deleuze (1992; 2008), Rita L. Irwin (2013) and Maria Cristina
Diederichsen (2019). Finally, from the debates around the theoretical foundations, the artistic-
experimental processes and the analyses to the photographs, I could glimpse new forms of study
with and from images, allying Communication to Art.
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