In the year 2000 I received an invitation from a person who worked in the Casa de Deten\u00e7\u00e3o de S\u00e3o Paulo (House of Detention of Sao Paulo), popularly known as Carandiru, to help with the celebration of a collective wedding that would be take place there.
\nThe brides of the prisoners, who were free women, insisted on getting married wearing bridal dresses. I had, in my atelier, many bridal dresses, so I decided to make their dreams come true: I lent these women the dresses, and helped to make them up.
\nThis process became a work of art. After the brides were ready I photographed them, and asked what motivated them to get married dressed as brides inside jail, with a violent man. Their answers were all very similar: they said they knew many women who were unhappy with their relationship, and who spent years being lonely or mistreated. In their cases, on visitor\u2019s day, which happened once a week, their men waited for them wearing perfume, anxious, madly in love, and missing them. So the fairy tale was inverted \u2013 in the \u201cRomantic Love\u201d tradition, the waiting belonged to the women\u2026
\nThese pictures are the register of that day.<\/p>\n