“Sao Paulo”

Push

Sao Paulo -  In Sao Paulo even sculptures push the citizen to work. Children use the sculpture to play while an airplane tooks off, in Rio de Janeiro direction. Idealized in 1920 by the sculptor Victor Brecheret, the monument was opened more than 30 years later, in 1953. Incorporated to Sao Paulo’s scenery, it’s become one of its most expressive symbols. Ibirapuera park.
Flavio Sampaio – Sao Paulo Lab

Public telephone Sao Paulo

Sao Paulo -  Orelhão is the name given to these public telephones. Nice word: Big Ear.…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Public telephone book Sao Paulo

Sao Paulo -  In virtually every Big Ear you find these stickers. A public Telephone book to contact ladies, who can be transvestites.…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Public Space Sao Paulo

Sao Paulo -  There are great public spaces designed by architects that work really well like Lina Bo Bardi’s sports and culture building Sesci Pompei and Centre Cultural. The climate allows a…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Protect yourself

Sao Paulo -  Sao Paulo offers many opportunities, but also a lot of insecurity and increasingly noticed that people protect themselves the way they can, in this image we can see in the…
Luciana Camargo – Sao Paulo Lab

Pixas

Sao Paulo -  There are a lot of different styles of murals, grafitti and here pixas. The pixadores use a unique style of lettering. Their messages have political connotations. Not for me to…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Painting in mirror

Sao Paulo -  I see the new buildings, with mirror, like canvas. There are many buildings like that. See the glare caused by the mirrors and windows. Many windows in the city. Sao…
Ines Correa – Sao Paulo Lab

Open ways

Sao Paulo -  Barra Funda neighborhood is characterized by very large blocks, which make life difficult for pedestrians. To shorten paths: a “passage" is opened up, through the middle of a land yet…
Sylvia Sanchez – Sao Paulo Lab

on stormy days

Sao Paulo -  Mobile home of a homeless person, all decorated and colourful. In the evening the inhabitant unpacks his house, to gather his gear in the morning to move on. Behind it…
Ines Correa – Sao Paulo Lab

Public bedroom

Sao Paulo -  Two boys are deep asleep at the doorstep of the cash dispensers hall of the Bradesko bank. Sao Paulo Liberdade 10th November 2009…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Preparing for the party Sao Paulo

Sao Paulo -  To prepare for the party whether it is Christmas or an anniversary you go to Rua 25 de Março. Here you find everything and much more. The Brazilian way of…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Pit Stop

Sao Paulo -  A quick stop at the company to collect and deliver documents and continue through the city. Nowadays in Sao Paulo is difficult to know if there are more cars or…
Luciana Camargo – Sao Paulo Lab

Painting city

Sao Paulo -  Traffic in Sao Paulo at the rush hour in 23 de Maio Ave. (that cuts the city from north to south). On your right, cars going to the north, and…
Flavio Sampaio – Sao Paulo Lab

Open Dumps

Sao Paulo -  Several garbage bags lying on the street - waiting for collection. With rain, garbage falling outside the bags loads into the “boeiros” - favoring floods. Meanwhile, the plastic trash can…
Sylvia Sanchez – Sao Paulo Lab

protest

Sao Paulo -  Detail from the front door of the block of flats where the MST – Movimento dos Sem Teto/ Homeless Movement Downtown São Paulo is hosted. Homeless people struggling to obtain…
Ines Correa – Migrationpapa

Popcorn cart

Sao Paulo -  Red popcorn and chips are sold on Paraiso metro station viaduct. Both fried on oil. Diesel or soy oil?…
Flavio Sampaio – Sao Paulo Lab

PCC street

Sao Paulo -  Do not take pictures here, Sergio the Catadore warned me. The PCC (Primeiro Comando da Capital) began as a prisoners union to defend inmate rights. But now it is a…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Over too fast

Sao Paulo -  The speed limit signs are not enough to “indoctrinate" São Paulo drivers. To try to control speed and reduce the large number of accidents, several cameras were installed along major…
Sylvia Sanchez – Sao Paulo Lab

Open air study rooms.

Sao Paulo -  In the Centro Cultural there are a lot of people studying. Old and young. There is a free wireless network. You have to apply to be able to get the…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Protected Police

Sao Paulo -  Sunday morning. A shopping arcade with both entrances closed by gates. And an empty police station, protected inside the space between the gates.…
Sylvia Sanchez – Sao Paulo Lab

Plate warped by velocity

Sao Paulo -  Plate warped probably by a speeding and height greater truck than allowed. São Paulo, 24th November, Rua Teodoro Sampaio, by Giovana Pasquini…
Giovana Pasquini – Sao Paulo Lab

Parked trolley

Sao Paulo -  A type of trolley used by workers to transport the recycled material. …
Ines Correa – Sao Paulo Lab

Out Signposts

Sao Paulo -  This house and all the other around it, in Helvetia Street, are going to be demolished untill the end of the year. There is a new project for this place…
Ines Correa – Migrationpapa

Open air gym

Sao Paulo -  Open air gym organised by a world champion boxing and men from the (neighbor)hood. Directly under the traffic viaducts, it is a good initiative, although they did send some people…
Lino Hellings – Flyoverpapa