Milton Camilo
Hey, I am Milton Camillo. I am a 50-year-old Afro-Brazilian dancer and artist from Rio who emigrated to Germany more than 20 years ago. I am currently living in Wuppertal and focusing on my paintings.
Story by Milton Camilo
Brazil, South America
Published on June 22, 2020
Reading time: 1 minutes 30 seconds.
Photo Credits: Suilian Richon
Hey, I am Milton Camillo. I am a 50-year-old Afro-Brazilian dancer and artist from Rio who emigrated to Germany more than 20 years ago. I am currently living in Wuppertal and focusing on my paintings. Within them, you can often find a certain sense of melancholy, a grasp of what is described by the Portuguese word “Saudade”. With my paintings, I am breaking up the normalized structures that have been taken for granted by the grown-ups in comparison to children, where everything is still fluid and possible. In that sense, they can definitely be understood politically.
How does this story make you feel?
Talk about this Story
Please enable cookies to view the comments powered by Disqus.
Subscribe to our Monthly Newsletter
Stay up to date with new stories on Correspondents of the World by subscribing to our monthly newsletter:
Topic: Author
ERROR: No author image found> Austria
Julia Schmidbaur
A story by Julia Schmidbaur
Journalist from Vienna Borne and raised in 'rudolfscrime' (as we call our 15th district) 02.07 1986 Vienna based, Barcelona at heart
> Austria
Izzy Bauman
A story by Julia Schmidbaur
Journalist from Vienna Borne and raised in 'rudolfscrime' (as we call our 15th district) 02.07 1986 Vienna based, Barcelona at heart
Explore other Topics
Get involved
At Correspondents of the World, we want to contribute to a better understanding of one another in a world that seems to get smaller by the day - but somehow neglects to bring people closer together as well. We think that one of the most frequent reasons for misunderstanding and unnecessarily heated debates is that we don't really understand how each of us is affected differently by global issues.
Our aim is to change that with every personal story we share.
Community Worldwide
Correspondents of the World is not just this website, but also a great community of people from all over the world. While face-to-face meetings are difficult at the moment, our Facebook Community Group is THE place to be to meet other people invested in Correspondents of the World. We are currently running a series of online-tea talks to get to know each other better.