Participating Artists Press Agency
Friday 19th of April 2024 – page 8
Sao Paulo -
This catadore cannot become part of the collective. He is sorting out his garbage in the street. He cannot leave his car behind afraid as he is it will be stolen. The man works for a boss in a strangling construction. The boss paid for his trip to come to Sao Paulo and for his car. The man will never be able to pay back his debts. So he is bound to keep on working for the man. Unprotected, on his own. He cannot submit to the ’equal rights’ of the collective. He has to liberate himself first. It is a form of new urban slaverism. In Sao Paulo the newest newcomers are exploited in this way more often. There are Bolivian people, the newest newcomers put into slavery by less new newcomers like Koreans in their garment studios.
Lino Hellings –
Sao Paulo Lab
Sao Paulo -
In my guesthouse it is all working people staying there. Like me. Mostly doctors and nurses coming from neighbouring countries like Peru, Colombia or other parts of Brazil. There is…
Lino Hellings –
Sao Paulo Lab
Sao Paulo -
Air view of São Paulo city’s noth area. How long will it take for the buildings to climb the hill?…
Flavio Sampaio –
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
Mr. Armênio Pereira, 66, began making suits in Portugal when he was 12. When he turned 16 came to Sao Paulo. His small tailor shop, in the neighborhood of Santa…
Ines Correa –
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
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
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
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
A note above the blue chair says it is reserved for obese people. Try to avoid blue chairs. In the metro carriages there is a run on the brown chairs…
Lino Hellings –
Sao Paulo Lab
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A type of trolley used by workers to transport the recycled material. …
Ines Correa –
Sao Paulo Lab
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
‘Plate men on Republica square. Remain still all day becoming almost invisible in the crowd offering services of gold business and employment vacancy. Its a form of communication and work…
Ze Carlos Barretta –
Sao Paulo Lab
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
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
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
Red popcorn and chips are sold on Paraiso metro station viaduct. Both fried on oil. Diesel or soy oil?…
Flavio Sampaio –
Sao Paulo Lab