“In photographing the Brazilian Sisters, three women whose postures and ornaments combine fantasies of a cyberneticized future and a ritualized past, Paul’s camera placement doesn’t bear a trace of hesitation or timidity. Through his avid lens he collaborates with these women, producing images of them at the height of their readiness for cultural battle and their sensuality.”

— Hassan Melehy

“The Brazilian Sisters, in performance, are a transcendent spectacle, initially appealing to our voyeuristic tendencies before delivering us more subtle messages regarding the complex relationship between our individual versus collective identities. Paul Assimacopoulos’ photographs tap into the same voyeuristic tendency and place, then capture and hold not only their creative motives, but the women themselves, their differences and individuality. A lovely exercise that is at once confrontational and poetic.”

— Leo Kuelbs

“Paul Assimacopoulos deftly captures the splendid plumage of urban wildlife. His photographs of the Brazilian Sisters serve as documentation encased in a formal aesthetic. With a tireless eye he waits for these creatures to posture and pose, flaunting their odd elegance and exoticism like a family of flamingos in a Mexican marshland. He gets down into their habitat, delves into their rituals, documents their other worldliness, and presents them to the viewer, who may never have seen such a spectacle but is delighted in its photographic reproduction."

— Rose Freymuth-Frazier

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