This article reports on a research project that analyzes images produced privately in Brazil between 1964 and 1985. The researchers explore archives in search of amateur recordings that denounce abuses committed by the officers of State. While examining a film of Inês Etienne Romeu’s wedding, they discover a recording of her release from prison, produced by Norma Bengell. Through the images and their personal archives, the trajectories and networks of relationships that brought these two women together are reconstructed.
Keywords: personal archives; women; authoritarism; visuality.
