Photos

Man walks past estação engenho novo in Rio de Janeiro’s North Zone (16/08/2016)

 

Graffiti covers the Brazilian Flag in the Lins de Vasconcelos neighbourhood, North Zone (16/08/2016)

Views out of ‘Sal da Terra’, a creche in the Árvore Seca favela in Rio’s North Zone (16/08/2016)

 

Rooftops in Árvore Seca (16/08/2016)

 

Lins de Vasconces neighbourhood, Rio de Janeiro North Zone (16/08/2016)

Views of Árvore Seca from a distance- ‘O Morro’ (16/08/2016)

 

Neighbourhood bordering the Árvore Seca favela (16/08/2016)

Local street artists performing by Copacabana beach (19/08/2016)

Locals passing by the famed Olympic rings on Copacabana beach (19/08/2016)

Brazilian tourists in Copacabana beach (19/08/2016)

While tourists roam the newly constructed Olympic boulevard, minutes away the neighbourhood of ‘Pedra do Sal’ celebrates Brazil on its own through Samba, blissfuly distanced from the Olympic clamour (19/08/2016)

Pedra do Sal, also nicknamed ‘Little Africa’ in Rio de Janeiro’s Saúde region (19/08/2016)

A resident of Pedra do Sal displaying a Brazilian flag from their balcony (19/08/2016)

Posing for a photo behind the scenes in Pedra do Sal (19/08/2016)

Locals enjoying the Samba in Pedra do Sal (19/08/2016)

A different scene awaits tourists who wander into Rio’s North Zone outside Estação Central- an area largely untouched by the sweeping Olympic urban renewal projects (21/08/2016)

Military trucks stationed outside Estação Central (21/08/2016)

Man crosses road cleared by military outside Estação Central (21/08/2016)

Local draped in Brazilian flag walks past group of soldiers stationed outside Estação Central (21/08/2016)

‘Olympics of Death’- a message from Rio’s Coletivo Revolução Cultural, a local activist group (21/08/2016)

Policeman ignores protester outside Estação Central (21/08/2016)