Leonardo Coelho

Photojournalist
   
Offerings to the Olympians
Location: Rio de Janeiro
Nationality: Brasil
Biography: Journalist and Photographer, I tell stories that are embedded in my mind and heart. My eyes, ears and hands do the rest, while my mouth serves just to show the world what is happening. Based in Rio, I have been working in journalism since 2013.... MORE
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Offerings to the Olympians
Copyright Leonardo Coelho 2024
Updated Jul 2016
Location Rio de Janeiro
Topics Documentary, Energy, Environment, Photography
Offerings, in the candomble tradition, are rituals in which fruits, meat, beverage, flowers and ornaments are used to offer compliments to an Orisha for triumphs or simply to homage it.

However, in modern Brazil, this syncretic ritual is unfortunately a veneration to consumerism and the lack of sanitation in one of its most famous postal card, the Guanabara Bay . Even with the 2016 Olympic Games approaching faster and faster, there is no clear effort to increase sanitation in Rio and to stop illegal occupations that pollutes its water

Fortunately, Jamaica, a brazilian instrument maker, lives on a beach inside Guanabara Bay helping to clean it, collecting most of the trash he finds. After, he creates musical instruments with the trash he collects and donates or sell it, giving a new life to the offerings of our everyday trash.

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