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...