“Sylvia Sanchez”

Sao Paulo -  Tired of “pixar” walls and “orelhões” (big ear phones)? Start to “pixar” pedestrian lights. Av. Francisco Matarazzo - SP - pic. by Sylvia Sanchez…
Sylvia Sanchez – Sao Paulo Lab

Sao Paulo -  Two men protect themselves from the rain under the awning of a closed shop. Besides, men play snooker in a bar and a child plays alone. Possible ways of having…
Sylvia Sanchez – Sao Paulo Lab

Within the Barra Funda Bus Station, there are “official” bookstores, selling magazines and new books. Outside the Station, in the street, there is an outdoors “garage store", with used books…
Sylvia Sanchez – Sao Paulo Lab

If you own an urban ground, in order to keep it, just take advantage of an old wooden gate and heavy chains and padlocks. So no one will come into…
Sylvia Sanchez – Sao Paulo Lab

Man talking on the phone close to his window - probably trying to get a mobile signal. In neigbourhoods with many buildings, mobile phone signals fails often enough (especially on…
Sylvia Sanchez – Sao Paulo Lab

There are so many bikes around that sometimes SP looks like a great Motocross track. However, the bus at the background of the image makes it clear that it is…
Sylvia Sanchez – Sao Paulo Lab

Do you work in the streets, near a bridge, with a boring work which requires you to stand up all the time? Reduce your tiredness sitting under the overpass, eating…
Sylvia Sanchez – Sao Paulo Lab

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

Many “blues” in Brigadeiro Luis Antonio Ave. The arriving bus, the glass windows of the modern architecture buildings, the street sign, the man walking on the sidewalk, and the sign…
Sylvia Sanchez – Sao Paulo Lab

If you are a man, far from any bathroom, and feel like peeing, look for some bushes, hide behind them and calmly pee. Av. Francisco Matarazzo/ SP - 06/12/09 -…
Sylvia Sanchez – Sao Paulo Lab

Neighbours rest and chat on the sidewalk in the evening in Vila Madalena. A break on the run from the big city.…
Sylvia Sanchez – Sao Paulo Lab

Street vendors usually work standing all day long. Except those who carry their chairs together with their sales materials. Barra Funda - SP - 06/12/09 - pic. by Sylvia Sanchez…
Sylvia Sanchez – Sao Paulo Lab

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

If you live in the streets, drink a lot and ask people for money in order to survive, a way to get their attention and thus get some money is…
Sylvia Sanchez – Sao Paulo Lab

If you work at a pub and want to pitch on the floor a warning of “Caution, slippery floor", just get an empty bottle of wine and put it under…
Sylvia Sanchez – Sao Paulo Lab

Security procedure in São Paulo: store shutter closed in a Sunday morning. If the shutter breaks, the sticker teaches how to fix it: “Just Call 3333 7882” @ Av. Brigadeiro…
Sylvia Sanchez – Sao Paulo Lab

Very high buildings being built in an area where there are still few builings. It’s the city growing vertical. Barra Funda - SP - 06/12/09 - pic. by Sylvia Sanchez…
Sylvia Sanchez – Sao Paulo Lab

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

Cyclist tries to cross a Vila Madalena street as cars come from both sides. After the construction of the subway in the neighborhood, a few years ago, the streets, which…
Sylvia Sanchez – Sao Paulo Lab

You want to sell some kitchen towels, but do not have a tent? Use the bed of trees as “display". Barra Funda - SP - 06/12/09 - pic. by Sylvia…
Sylvia Sanchez – Sao Paulo Lab

Lots of traffic signs, street name signs, wires and buildings in Av. Brigadeiro Luis Antonio. Drivers who get confused with all that information can get some help from the poster:…
Sylvia Sanchez – Sao Paulo Lab

Physical moving: buses, cars, motorcycles. Information moving: man with a cell phone and women talking to each other while waiting ("standing still") to cross the street. Av. Rebouças - São…
Sylvia Sanchez – Sao Paulo Lab

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