Rio Branco is both a photographer and a filmmaker, and I love the way the 20 images that comprise this iconic piece are like storyboards, representing the intersection of his work in photography and film. Each frame captures two boys engaged in capoeira, a highly stylized form of fighting that draws as much from ballet as karate. They are performing for the camera, and are simultaneously determined to ignore it.

Sarah Meister, Curator, Department of Photography