The Mangue Vermelho (Rhizophora mangle) is more than a tree.
It is an architect of life at the edge of land and sea, a living threshold where the elements merge and time folds upon itself.

Its roots reach down through brackish mud, anchoring forests that pulse with resilience. They are vaults of carbon, nurseries for fish, shelters for birds, guardians of the shoreline. Through their entanglement, they filter waters and hold sediments, protecting both the coast and the life within it.

But the mangrove is also a mythic space — a place of transition, of becoming.
To enter the mangue is to step into a world of suspended light and shadow, where decay feeds life and life leans into death. It is a realm of liminality, a place where the veil between the seen and unseen thins.

In many cultures, including Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous traditions, the mangrove is a sacred territory — a domain of spirits, of orishas, of ancestral presences. It holds the memory of ancient waters and the promise of renewal.

This photographic series, Mangue Vermelho, is an ode to that ecological and spiritual potency. Through the gaze of the lens, the mangrove reveals itself not just as a habitat, but as a cathedral of roots — a living archive of resilience and transformation.

Each image invites contemplation of the deep time encoded in its textures: the mud that nourishes, the salt that sculpts, the veins of water threading through shadow.
It is an art of survival, a choreography of adaptation, a visual hymn to the unseen forces that sustain coastal life.

In an era of climate crisis, the mangrove stands as both guardian and witness — holding fast against rising tides, whispering of the cycles that bind all life to earth and sea.

To walk among the roots of the Mangue Vermelho is to remember: we too are entangled in its web of breath and silence.

"Red Mangrove"
Color photography
1892 x 2848
9,11 MB

Alcântara - Maranhão - Brazil
@MarcosPalhano16
octuber, 2012
Octuber, 2012

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