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The first thing which lets me down
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
reality in which I was born,

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I have aways thought about 
the classification of colors

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

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

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This is my family,
adopted members included.

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I carry in my blood, 
or at least in my eyes,

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the distinct colors that make 
the Brazilian population.

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Among them, 
I've never felt different.


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But, when far from them,
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,
but only real colors.

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

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Something that would be 
an industrial system,

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where all the colors 
are of equal importance.

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Therefore I chose Pantone scales,

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in which primary colors have
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
and easy to reproduce way.

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On white background.

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Whan i take portraits 
on a white background,

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

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And then I apply this color
to the background

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and look for an appropriate color
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
that changes color because of sunbathing,

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or when we are frozen,
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
was intended to be realised online,

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globally, with public announcements.

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Absolutely everyone is welcomed
to participate in the project,

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which has got so much empathy
from the public,

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and, finally, all these people
are our new identities.

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They are online identities.

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This project, which was started
in a customary way

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

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was planned as a project
moving across all five continents.

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The post remarkable thing
about this great project

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is the number of works
which have risen from it.

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It's an unfinished project,
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, 
John Math Guy, who has decided

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to do a statistic analysis
of the colors in a scientific way

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

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This is Emily Hardin' brilliant work,
who is interested

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in a formal range of faces
presented in the project.

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

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

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Here is the work of Ana Vasconcelos,
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
then they paint with them.

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It is to create this personal
and untransferable identity

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

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

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(Applause)

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One of the most emotional things
and one of the main rewards,

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also going back to
what I said about my family,

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are the emails I get from 
families with adopted children

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about this family game
about identifying those pictures

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realizing that
all the colors equalize us.

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This is the main reward
of the project.

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This family is wonderful.

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

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

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

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Humanae is like an invitation to press
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
there will be thousands and thousands.

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Thank you very much.

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(Applause)