About Helena Cooper's work
Helena Cooper's images don't just record, they listen.
Her photography is born from listening to the body in the territory, listening to the time that germinates within the forest, listening to the living memory that pulses in the hands that plant, care for, and celebrate.
Helena is a biologist, but she is also a sensitive ethnographer, an artist of the moment, and a mediator between worlds. Her lens travels through markets, villages, rivers, and backyards, where the visible and the invisible coexist. She walks with her eyes, but photographs with affection revealing layers that often escape the hurried eye.
There is an ancestral force in her series: women who perform knowledge, bodies that dance knowledge, images that cultivate resistance and care. The territory is not a backdrop, it is a character, it is presence. Agroecology, Indigenous culture, femininity, and the earth intertwine in each frame, in each color. Her photography is also ritual. A gesture of restoring to the world its own beauty, mystery, and dignity.