What is left when you lived? Photography is responsible for capturing the moment and turn it into memory source, as well as what remains when we live are vestiges of a past lived. On the other hand, when shooting the photographer does from all his history and cultural background. So, this photo essay is the result of a meeting of memories.

Francisco Lázaro Cabrera was born in a small village in Spain in 1922, but lives in Madrid for several decades. He lived the Civil War followed by forty years of the Franco`s dictatorship. Graduated and worked as architect, but dedicated his life to painting, beyond the collection and appreciation for art, from religious art to the Brazilian folk art. He painted over five hundred frames. In the fifties he meets his wife Marilia Resende, a brazilian woman and source of inspiration for several of his works. Marilia and Francisco had no children. After trying to create an Institute in Spain that could save their works and their art collection, he give it up and in one of our conversations, he said that after his death, he would like that everything was on fire.