She studies hard throughout the week, and she devotes her day off on Sunday to training for the runway. Still, Maysa pursues her modeling career. Maysa’s mother is currently involved in a legal case against Young Miss Brazil. She was set to go on from the state pageant to the national competition, but the organizers bailed, and Maysa was not able to continue along that path to success. Six months passed, and Maysa entered the pageant world she took home the Young Miss São Paulo “Black Beauty” title, reserved for girls of color. She and Maysa share a house with Maysa’s little sister, aunts, and uncle, and Maysa, her seven-year-old sister, and mother stay in the same room. Life in the area, suggests Dorr, isn’t easy, and Maysa’s mother works hard to make ends meet. Maysa’s mother, who makes a living as a secretary and is separated from the policeman father, couldn’t afford the fee for a photographer, so Dorr agreed to do the shoot her modeling and pageant portfolio for free.Īfter that first session, the family welcomed the photographer into their house in Brasilandia, a large favela in Sao Paulo. She wore a green dress and dreamt someday of being in the competition herself.ĭorr never forgot meeting Maysa and hearing about her many goals, and when her mother reached out to her months later, the artist jumped at the chance to photograph her again. The photographer remembers vividly meeting the girl, then eleven, at Palacio do Cedro during the Young Miss Brazil pageant. “ Maysa is proud of her skin, her beauty, her African hair,” Brazilian photographer Luisa Dorr says of her thirteen-year-old muse and close friend, whom she has documented for the last two years.
Sunday morning, after buying bread for breakfast. Luana, Maysa’s sister, decided she also wants be a model.
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