Bio:
Nascido no sertão da Bahia, na cidade de Rui Barbosa, iniciou seu trabalho como fotógrafo ajudando o pai a tirar fotos 3x4 em Salvador. Formou-se em Biologia pela Universidade Federal da Bahia - UFBA, mas foi na fotografia que ele encontrou seu meio de expressão e sobrevivência. Com mais de 30 anos de profissão, a religiosidade popular e as manifestações de fé são os temas mais representativos em seus trabalhos.
Gondim construiu um vasto acervo da religiosidade afrobrasileira, retratando o catolicismo e o sincretismo.
Em 1992 iniciou sua pesquisa sobre a Irmandade da Boa Morte, com a qual trabalha até os dias de hoje. Em 1993 organizou em Salvador o I Seminário da Religiosidade Popular da Bahia.
Participou de diversas exposições individuais e coletivas em cidades como Salvador, Recife, Aracaju, Brasília, Belo Horizonte, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro e Londres. Entre as exposições coletivas das quais participou estão a Bienal de Valencia (Espanha, 2007), em L'exposition BRESIL - L'HERITAGE AFRICAIN (Musée Dapper de Paris, 2005) e na Acts of Faith - Brazilian Contemporary Photography (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, Inglaterra, 2001). Suas fotos também compõem a tradicional coleção Pirelli-Masp e os acervos da Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo e do Museu Afro-Brasileiro.
Seus trabalhos circulam o país em revistas e livros e podem ser vistos também no blog Apenas Bahia, apenas fotografia. Adenor continua atuando como freelance na área de fotojornalismo e diz que não é um artista, mas um retratista.
The Recôncavo is an almost invisible center-of-gravity. Circumscribing the Bay of All Saints, this region was landing for more enslaved human beings than any other such throughout all of human history. Not unrelated, it is also birthplace of some of the most physically & spiritually uplifting music ever made. —Sparrow
"Dear Sparrow: I am thrilled to receive your email! Thank you for including me in this wonderful matrix."
—Susan Rogers: Personal recording engineer for Prince, inc. "Purple Rain", "Sign o' the Times", "Around the World in a Day"... Director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory
I'm Pardal here in Brazil (that's "Sparrow" in English). The deep roots of this project are in Manhattan, where Allen Klein (managed the Beatles and The Rolling Stones) called me about royalties for the estate of Sam Cooke... where Jerry Ragovoy (co-wrote Time is On My Side, sung by the Stones; Piece of My Heart, Janis Joplin of course; and Pata Pata, sung by the great Miriam Makeba) called me looking for unpaid royalties... where I did contract and licensing for Carlinhos Brown's participation on Bahia Black with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock...
...where I rescued unpaid royalties for Aretha Franklin (from Atlantic Records), Barbra Streisand (from CBS Records), Led Zeppelin, Mongo Santamaria, Gilberto Gil, Astrud Gilberto, Airto Moreira, Jim Hall, Wah Wah Watson (Melvin Ragin), Ray Barretto, Philip Glass, Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd for his interest in Bob Marley compositions, Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam and others...
...where I worked with Earl "Speedo" Carroll of the Cadillacs (who went from doo-wopping as a kid on Harlem streetcorners to top of the charts to working as a janitor at P.S. 87 in Manhattan without ever losing what it was that made him special in the first place), and with Jake and Zeke Carey of The Flamingos (I Only Have Eyes for You)... stuff like that.
Yeah this is Bob's first record contract, made with Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd of Studio One and co-signed by his aunt because he was under 21. I took it to Black Rock to argue with CBS' lawyers about the royalties they didn't want to pay. They paid.
MATRIX MUSICAL
The Matrix was built below among some of the world's most powerfully moving music, some of it made by people barely known beyond village borders. Or in the case of Sodré, his anthem A MASSA — a paean to Brazil's poor ("our pain is the pain of a timid boy, a calf stepped on...") — having blasted from every radio between the Amazon and Brazil's industrial south, before he was silenced. (that's me left, with David Dye & Kim Junod for U.S. National Public Radio) ... The Matrix started with Sodré, with João do Boi, with Roberto Mendes, with Bule Bule, with Roque Ferreira... music rooted in the sugarcane plantations of Bahia. Hence our logo (a cane cutter).