Private Story
The others Sight
Altough he is always watchful, Marco and other homeless live in a small and wandering community, which they call Maloca just like the indigenous longhouses. Together, they try to back up each other as much as they can in the "pista", as they call the streets.
Even though Rio is at the verge of the Olympic Games, and City Hall tries to publicize the city as a model for 21 century Brazil, violence was never reduced in the homeless universe. Latoya, a transgender, has a praying to gather confidence when in though situations. She prays for Our Lady of Aparecida, patroness of Brazilian catholics.
Our Lady of Aparecida
protect me
Never let anything wrong happens
cause i´m here now,
but tomorrow i wont
Neguinho,36, on the other hand say his best weapon is his confidence, which helped him found a better family than his real one. "My relatives said I would not live after 15".
Stories like that are everywhere in the streets of Rio de Janeiro, and this project is analyzing how the homeless people, specially the ones who lives in the richest region of the city, called Zona Sul, the Southern Region. I want to show how the life in the "pista" is, exploring the particulars of the people who live in the otherside of the "marvelous city".
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