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Playlist: Sofia Saldanha's Portfolio

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The Sleeping Fool

From Sofia Saldanha | 10:22

Art museum security guards spend their days in uniform, speaking quietly or not at all, surrounded by works of irreplaceable art.

It may look easy, but the job requires a stressful degree of responsibility, poise, and silence. Some guards may begin to feel trapped inside their own thoughts, or even inside a painting. The Sleeping Fool presents the stories, dreams and thoughts of those who work behind the walls of an art gallery.

The-sleeping-fool-small_small Art museum security guards spend their days in uniform, speaking quietly or not at all, surrounded by works of irreplaceable art. It may look easy, but the job requires a stressful degree of responsibility, poise, and silence. Some guards may begin to feel trapped inside their own thoughts, or even inside a painting. The Sleeping Fool presents the stories, dreams and thoughts of those who work behind the walls of an art gallery.

The Captain

From Salt Institute for Documentary Studies | 07:20

In the small village of Stratton, Maine, a woman believes she's not the master of her own destiny - the spirit of a sea captain is preventing her from leaving.

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In a small town in Stratton, Maine, a woman believes she's not the master of her own destiny. Sandra Isgro bought a restaurant inn and several times tried to sell it and move out of town. However, it's believed that in Stratton inexplicable energies converge and the spirit of a captain ended up there preventing her from leaving.

Yamamoto's Waves

From Sofia Saldanha | Part of the The Wapping Project Podcast series | 09:42

"A silk dress with a bamboo crinoline hangs upside down over a lake in the center of a former power station. The dress' reflection, distorted by a boat's oar, depicts something ethereal, something "other,” something that though once a wedding dress, here becomes genderless.

Those who experience Yohji Making Waves at the Wapping Project in London, part of a London-wide commemoration of Yamamoto’s 30 years in Europe, are invariably humbled. As one of the boat rowers around the makeshift lake tell us in this piece, the scene brings to mind the River Styx.

This shrine-like space was engendered with further meaning when it opened as the 9.0 magnitude earthquake hit the coast off of Japan in late March. Saldanha communicates this added immediateness with this piece, pairing reflections from the oarsmen and the director of the Wapping project to affecting ambient noise. " Sukey Bernard, The [Un]Observed.

250669_10150260554480803_549785802_9254351_1438080_n_small "A silk dress with a bamboo crinoline hangs upside down over a lake in the center of a former power station. The dress' reflection, distorted by a boat's oar, depicts something ethereal, something "other,” something that though once a wedding dress, here becomes genderless. Those who experience Yohji Making Waves at the Wapping Project in London, part of a London-wide commemoration of Yamamoto’s 30 years in Europe, are invariably humbled. As one of the boat rowers around the makeshift lake tell us in this piece, the scene brings to mind the River Styx. This shrine-like space was engendered with further meaning when it opened as the 9.0 magnitude earthquake hit the coast off of Japan in late March. Saldanha communicates this added immediateness with this piece, pairing reflections from the oarsmen and the director of the Wapping project to affecting ambient noise. " Sukey Bernard, The [Un]Observed.

From This Point On

From Salt Institute for Documentary Studies | 07:12

Joanna Foster was worried when her first deaf child was born. When her second baby was born deaf and autistic, she was devastated. Joanna started learning how to sign and entered a whole new world.

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Joanna Foster was worried when her first deaf child was born. When her second baby was born deaf and autistic, she was devastated. For most hearing people the deaf culture is inaccessible. Joanna started learning how to sign and entered a whole new world. She fight her fears and changed her career to be more close to deaf people. Nowadays, Joanna helps parents that like her were taken by surprise. She doesn’t see herself has unfortunate. She believes that deaf culture is as fascinating as hearing culture and that there is a lot of things to learn from that.