Vibrant Images

I often find something of interest on the New York Times Lens blog, but the articles often leave me wanting more, with just a few images. But there are 19 pictures in the slide show which accompanies A Vibrant Life Amid the Ruins of Rio, and they help tell an interesting story about a community photographer Peter Bauza went to live with so he could photograph ‘them with dignity and show the reality of their daily lives. Not only the “pain, misery and needs but also joy and happiness and dreams”’.

And Lens does also link to the photographers own web site, where you can see more of ‘Copacabana Palace’ and several other projects, and read his own text about the project, which I found considerably more illumating than the Lens piece.

This project won Bauza the Visa d’or Feature award in perpignan last month, and it reminds us that there are rather more interesting things about Brazil than a few highly subsidised people playing games – and often rather silly ones at that – for the sake of national pride. Not that I’m against sport – I’m happy for anyone who enjoys it to play as I once did for the joy of it.

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