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The first thing which lets me down[br]when I am nervous is my Spanish.

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(Laughter)

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Well, let's see.

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Due to my origin, the social and ethnic[br]reality in which I was born,

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I have aways thought about [br]the classification of colors

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associated with race this way:[br]red, white, black and yellow.

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A reduction of something which, [br]to me, is really much richer.

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This is my family,[br]adopted members included.

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I carry in my blood, [br]or at least in my eyes,

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the distinct colors that make [br]the Brazilian population.

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Among them, [br]I've never felt different.[br]

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But, when far from them,[br]I sometimes do.

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That's why I came up with the idea

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to develop a catalogue of colors,[br]but only real colors.

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To do so, I wanted to find[br]a secure mode.

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Something that would be [br]an industrial system,

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where all the colors [br]are of equal importance.

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Therefore I chose Pantone scales,

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in which primary colors have[br]the same importance as mixed ones.

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Photos using this color system

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are made in a very simple[br]and easy to reproduce way.

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On white background.

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Whan i take portraits [br]on a white background,

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I always pick a 11x11 pixel[br]square from the nose.

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And then I apply this color[br]to the background

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and look for an appropriate color[br]in the Pantone system.

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The choice of the nose is intentional,

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because it is the first part of body[br]that changes color because of sunbathing,

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or when we are frozen,[br]or as a result of drinking too much...

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So that no one is the same color.

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Like this man.

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From the very beginning, the project[br]was intended to be realised online,

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globally, with public announcements.

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Absolutely everyone is welcomed[br]to participate in the project,

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which has got so much empathy[br]from the public,

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and, finally, all these people[br]are our new identities.

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They are online identities.

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This project, which was started[br]in a customary way

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and has taken huge proportions[br]because I'm always short of colors,

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was planned as a project[br]moving across all five continents.

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The post remarkable thing[br]about this great project

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is the number of works[br]which have risen from it.

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It's an unfinished project,[br]yet it's producing things.

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One is Kyle Mathewson,

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professor of the University of Illinois,

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who uses the portraits from Humanae

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for his physiology classes.

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This is John Seymour, [br]John Math Guy, who has decided

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to do a statistic analysis[br]of the colors in a scientific way

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to find out the percentage of each one,[br]whether there more of one than the others.

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This is Emily Hardin' brilliant work,[br]who is interested

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in a formal range of faces[br]presented in the project.

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I publish the photos on Tumblr,[br]she draws them on paper.

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From Los Ángeles, we are entirely[br]connected by this unfinished job.

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Here is the work of Ana Vasconcelos,[br]a teacher who lives in São Paulo,

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who presents the project to her students,

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she gives them dyes to mix[br]then they paint with them.

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It is to create this personal[br]and untransferable identity

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and completely destroy what is known[br]as a "flesh color" pencil .

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The point is that the pencil[br]is not of "body color", not at all.

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(Applause)

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One of the most emotional things[br]and one of the main rewards,

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also going back to[br]what I said about my family,

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are the emails I get from [br]families with adopted children

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about this family game[br]about identifying those pictures

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realizing that[br]all the colors equalize us.

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This is the main reward[br]of the project.

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This family is wonderful.

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I always say that with Humanae,[br]I've learned to be a mere catalyst,

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I am a channel through which[br]people partly tell my story,

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and keep telling their own too,[br]because they tell what I'm saying.

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Humanae is like an invitation to press[br]a "share" button inside our brain

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and equalize us all through tints.

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There are 1076 of us and I hope[br]there will be thousands and thousands.

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Thank you very much.

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(Applause)