Says Fernanda: Working with travel photography in the last years, I could experiment tourism in its multiples dimensions. One of its aspects that really fascinates me is its democratization. In the last decade, Brazilian middle class increased its expenses on tourism by 277%. Displacement, besides being more frequent, is more...
Javier Alvarez: PREDIO
During the nineties, the working class and social groups began squatting in abandoned buildings in São Paulo’s (Brazil) downtown. Today, there are more than 40 different movements throughout the country, of families, immigrants and/or workers squatting in hundreds of abandoned properties. On the thirteen floors of the Marconi squat, nearly...
Paulo Batalha: A Better Home Waiting in The Blue Sky
Says Paulo: This series represents part of a long-term project about immigration in my city, Sao Paulo, and my country, Brazil. I spent the last year accompanying the cult of a peculiar Pentecostal church located in Sao Paulo's downtown. It was created and is mostly attended by Nigerian immigrants which...
Tiago Coelho: Joy Resort
The small city of Guaiba in the south of Brazil sits by the Guiba River, and it has 100.000 inhabitants. One particular aspect about Guaiba city is striking: a large cellulose factory, the only one in the world situated in an urban environment. From almost anywhere in the city, you...
Pol Kurucz: Poor Billionaires
After Zone1, Anti-Humans and Afro-Fem, Pol Kurucz is launching his fourth supercharged series, Poor Billionaires, inspired by the deep social void in Brazil. The only glimpse rich and poor Brazilians have of each other’s lives is through the distorted prism of soap operas and social media. A miner will never...