Showing posts with the label Brazil

The Selaron Steps of Rio de Janeiro

Jun 27, 2016

Rio de Janeiro’s most famous street is actually a flight of stairs connecting the streets of Joaquim Silva and Pinto Martins in the Lapa and...

The Rio de Janeiro Cathedral

Mar 15, 2016

One of Rio de Janeiro’s most visible attraction is the Rio de Janeiro Cathedral or the Metropolitan Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro. This cone s...

The Hellish Gold Mines of Serra Pelada

Feb 4, 2016

In the early 1980s, Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado travelled to the mines of Serra Pelada, some 430 kilometers south of the mouth ...

Villagers Scrap a Living Out of Abandoned Diamond Mine in Brazil

Jan 27, 2016

Deep in the heart of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, along the banks of the Rio Jequitinhonha, rural miners explore the massive open pi...

The Museum of Tomorrow, Rio de Janeiro

Dec 21, 2015

The city of Rio de Janeiro has opened a new “experimental museum” called the Museum of Tomorrow devoted to exploring the possibilities of a ...

Fordlandia: A Modern Industrial Ruin in The Heart of Amazon

Nov 23, 2015

This photograph of men standing in shirtless bodies, surrounded by the long leaves of the jungle fauna, and a thatched hut behind, was captu...

The Anavilhanas Archipelago

Sep 8, 2015

The archipelago of Anavilhanas is located on the Rio Negro river, approximately 70 km upstream from Manaus, Brazil, at a place where the riv...

Encontro das Aguas - The Meeting of Waters

Sep 4, 2015

About 10 kilometers from the inland city of Manaus in northern Brazil, the black Rio Negro river, which flows through the city, meet the san...

Towns of Twins

May 6, 2015

The University of Texas estimates that 32 out of every 1,000 people in this world are a twin or 16 pairs in 1,000, which translates to 3 pe...

The Trans-Amazonian Highway: An Ecological Disaster

Nov 24, 2014

The Trans-Amazonian highway is a 5,000 kilometre road which cuts across the heart of the Amazon forest, spanning Brazil from the coastal cit...