Photo-Rituals for Disappearance is a limited-edition, hand-made book which creates a dialogue amongst various elements and invites the reader to a journey into magic to speak about female healers, History and women’s rights.

By revealing rituals for “disappearance” that Marilene Ribeiro conceives and performs with other women to heal a traumatic experience of love and death she had, the book 'Photo-Rituals for Disappearance' celebrates the ancient, magical way women have to deal with love and remedy. By absorbing the aura of pagan rituals to praise the powers of care and healing inherited from female shamans, healers and midwives, she shapes a form of resistance, a counterpoint to the stigmatization and persecution of the female being we have lived over time –labelled as “witch”, “hag”. 'Photo-Rituals for Disappearance' deconstructs that misogynistic discourse and brings about a new perspective based on the power of the ‘woman-being’. The book brings together elements from various sources that connect the Global North with the Global South, past with present, and photography with other media (illustration, expired analogue film, 17th-century women’s recipes for natural remedies, current-time fortune teller leaflets, cyanotype and poetry).

Marilene Ribeiro is an award-winning Brazilian visual artist and researcher. She has been nominated for the Prix Pictet 2025 and has also been named on the PhMuseum as one of the 12 woman photographers to watch worldwide. Her practice is focused on the environmental and the Human Rights agendas, with a decolonial gaze from the Global South. Ribeiro’s projects are engaged in the political agency of photography.