“Sao Paulo”

Sao Paulo -  Sao Paulo has more higher buildings each day. Avenida Santo Amaro, Brooklin, São Paulo, SP, by Luciana Camargo.
Luciana Camargo – Sao Paulo Lab

Sao Paulo -  The office wall of the Movimento Nacional Dos Catadores (MCNR).  is covered with photos of the last congress. Every photo features Lula, the president of Brazil. He hands out…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Sao Paulo -  When I arrived in the neighborhood of “Bom Retiro” it was lunchtime. A good time to be there because I was not allowed to enter inside the stores, people didn’t…
Ines Correa – Migrationpapa

Sao Paulo on a rainy day becomes a gray city, the city of concrete as it is known by the Brazilians, but even under a lot of water and on…
Luciana Camargo – Sao Paulo Lab

Metro green line. Sao Paulo 30th of November 2009. Lino Hellings…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

This woman came from Equador. She sells scarves in Liberdade, a neighborhood of Chinese and Japanese people. She doesn’t speak portuguese and didn’t understand my questions in english as well…
Ines Correa – Migrationpapa

Nothing better than a rest in the afternoon, after a hard work taking paper in the street to sell. This is one of the way brazilian like to live. Sao…
Ines Correa – 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

A new and legão (cool, literally ‘legal’) venue for photography opened today. The first exhibition is showing the gutters of Sao Paulo. It is shot by a collective named…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Sao Paulo on a rainy day becomes a gray city, the city of concrete, as it is known by the Brazilians, but even under a lot of water and on…
Luciana Camargo – Sao Paulo Lab

In corners of the station and beyond you find couples kissing passionately. It does add a swing to live. Brazilian way. Ginga-Jogo de cintura. …
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

In the concrete corridors leading to the platforms of the metro it feels like being in an artwork for me. The shape of the tubes. The modernist seats. On the…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Despite the informality of the job of catadores there is a support organisation that helps the collectives organise themselves. The only principle the collectives have to accept is, work as…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Employee from Cine Reserva on Paulista Avenue, important commercial business in Sao Paulo smiled and strikes poses when saw that is being photographed, after, asks where it will be published…
Luciana Camargo – Sao Paulo Lab

Air view of Tietê river that crosses the city of São Paulo from east to west. Very polluted in the last decades, the river was once used to aquatic and…
Flavio Sampaio – Sao Paulo Lab

In the commercial areas of Sao Paulo, tall and law buildings contrasts and camouflage themselves with small houses. Company building LeGrand and Getronics. Rua Verbo Divino, Chácara Santo Antonio, São…
Luciana Camargo – 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

Neighborhood with high concentration of artists and poets. In Vila Madalena, you can find nature and art in the poetry of street names such as Harmony, Glitter and Sunflower and…
Ines Correa – Sao Paulo Lab

Specially on sundays you might see many new old people in the streets. Jogging, walking hand in hand in a lovingly way. Sao paulo is the first city I see…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

My first job was in a joinery. I like the smell of wood, admire the art of carpenter masters and couldn’t not honor this. São Paulo, Santa Cecília neighbourhood.…
Flavio Sampaio – Sao Paulo Lab

It is spring in Sao Paulo. Heavy rains and sunshine alternate. More rain and warmer then in other years make the trees blossom even more intensely. In this season the…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

At lunch time, people work in a very Brazilian way, carry all kinds of things in their makeshift trolley, one tries to carry a kitchen stove to the other cart…
Luciana Camargo – 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

I first took the picture. Then I tried to talk with them. Once more, they didn’t want to talk. When they saw me with the camera they quicly went inside…
Ines Correa – Migrationpapa