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Dani Tranchesi: Ordinary Miracles by Ana LealNovember 30, 2025

Dani Tranchese , pigmento mineral sobre papel de algodão, 2022, série Seja O Que Deus Quiser.

©Dani Tranchese, Cazumbas, Cajari, MA, 2022

I first met Dani Tranchesi during the professional photography program at Escola Panamericana, in São Paulo. From the beginning, I felt a natural affinity with her—she has always been a simple, sincere person, with a direct and delicate way of observing the world. What has consistently captivated me in her work is the beauty she finds in the subtleties of everyday life.

In Brazil—a country so vast, so diverse, and so culturally rich—many of these details often go unnoticed. But Dani’s eye, both sensitive and profound, reveals what remains hidden in the simplicity of daily existence. Through her expeditions across the immense Brazilian interior, she captures with empathy and generosity the layers of life, culture, and human presence that compose our landscape.

It is with great pleasure that I share Dani’s work with you today.

©Dani Tranchesi, Waters of Santa Barbara Salvador, BA, 2019

Dani Tranchesi (São Paulo, 1968) is a street photographer, born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil. Her work capture the moment and the unexpected, exploring daily life and popular culture, always between the common and the unusual. She has held remarkable exhibitions, such as the one on display at the Museum of Image and Sound (MIS) in São Paulo and at the Museum of Photography in Fortaleza, called “Whatever God Wills,” curated and chronicled by Diógenes Moura.

She participated in several photographic exhibitions in Brazil in addition to having three books published. Also participated in the Terra em Transe project and the Arles photography festival in France.

Her projects delve into the heart of Brazil, from São Paulo’s street markets to amusement parks, and even cross the world’s borders. A graduate in communication from ESPM, she has been working on authorial projects with a strong poetic and documentary appeal since 2016.

Instagram: @danitranchesi

©Dani Tranchesi, The gypsies, Recife, PE, 2022

Whatever God Wills

The project be “Whatever God Wills” was made for six years in Brazil in the countryside and in some capitals showing everyday life and parties many religious and popular festivals and the religious syncretism that exists in Brazil.

“Whatever God Wills” it is a good example of my work that is based on this everyday life. There was another work called “3 is 5” that portrayed the popular farmers markets in Brazil. My first book called “Lovely Sleepwalking Delirium” then there was another book that also photographs everyday life in the center of São Paulo and inside the houses of Marajó Island so I have this my main interest.

I have always been interested in others, in landscapes where humankind is one’s own kind, in reflections of daily life, in cities inside and out, in existence in an empathetic and generous way.