Collected by Victor Yves, Visual Culture of Northeast Brazil (Cordel Edition) is a visual and cultural investigation into one of Brazil’s most distinctive vernacular publishing systems. Rooted in the street markets of the Northeast, cordel emerged at the intersection of oral poetry, low-cost printing, and woodcut imagery. Sold hanging from strings and often performed aloud, these small booklets transformed print into voice, image into action, and the marketplace into a living archive.