Due to heavy rains the night of the film’s debut during the Mineiro launch of “To Belém & Back,” a re-debut is now scheduled in Tiradentes’s Cultural Center for Friday, Jan. 8th, at 7:30pm. The film, in many ways a simple love letter to the interior of Brazil, brings a […]
Inhotim, a major gem in both Brazil and the contemporary art world, has Free Wednesdays. I visited the other week, and my photography benefited from so many school children visiting on day trips from the state capital, Belo. Photography, only recently, is now permitted inside galleries: a very welcome artistic […]
Author Ben Batchelder wrapped up a full year of book-related launches, eleven all told, with the Mineiro, or regional, launch of To Belém & Back. The final event of the year returned To Belém & Back to its roots, in the colonial, mountain town in Brazil where the journey began. […]
You are cordially invited to a photo exhibit opening, a book launch and signing, and a short film debut followed by a Q & A with author/photographer Ben Batchelder afterwards. (Para a convite em português, favor olhar em baixo o gráfico da convite imprimida.) The photo exhibit, named Tiradentes: Becos […]
Continuing the U.S. launch of To Belém & Back, there were three book events in mid-September on the Upper East Coast: a book club reading in Winchester, MA, followed by an open book launch event in Brookline, MA, followed by one in New York’s West Village. Among the innovations for […]
You’re invited to the New York launch of To Belém & Back: Backroads Brazil with my Black Lab, on Monday, Sept. 15th, at 7pm, to include a reading, an audio/visual presentation, and Q&A. The event is graciously hosted by Roger & Renata Ullman – old friends of the author, who […]
You’re invited to the US launch of “To Belém & Back: Backroads Brazil with my Black Lab” during a gala event at the Coral Gables Museum, including a photo exhibit of images from the journey, a reading, Q&A, and reception. Please register via the AS/COA site here.
Caraça is a jewel among the vast crown of backroads Brazil, hidden in mid-eastern Minas Gerais. Originally a seminary founded in 1820 which schooled a number of Brazil’s presidents, it is now a private Nature Park and Shrine, which includes Brazil’s first neo-gothic church. The park is essentially a large […]
“To Belém & Back,” for its global launch in downtown São Paulo, Brazil, was honored by a large turnout for a one-night art intervention, which included a photo exhibit (of images from the journey), a pocket show by Brazilian star and singer Vanessa Bumagny, the book’s launch video, and book […]
You are invited to the launch of author Ben Batchelder‘s second book, “To Belém & Back: Backroads Brazil with my Black Lab,” in São Paulo, Brazil on Thursday, Feb. 26th. Besides a photo exhibition of images from the journey, there will be a show by the author’s friend Vanessa Bumagny, […]
