The 13-Year-Old Pageant Girl Who's Challenging Racism in Brazil - Feature Shoot

“Maysa is proud of her skin, her beauty, her african hair,” says Brazilian photographer Luisa Dorr of her thirteen-year-old muse and close friend, whom she has documented for the last two years. The photographer remembers vividly meeting the girl, then eleven, at Palacio do Cedro during the Young Miss Brazil pageant. She wore a green dress and dreamt someday of being in the competition herself.

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