I'm a fan of reality. I believe that photography has a serious commitment to the truth. It should be reproduced and shown to people as if to say : "This happened this way, that's what I saw and the truth is here." But even though I am very convinced of this belief of "truth and reality in photography," this truth and this reality sometimes causes me astonishment and at times I prefer not to hide or omit, but to close my eyes to the reality I see in my front.
Brazil has been experiencing a serious economic crisis for more than 4 years, and as a large country with a population of 200 million people, this crisis has claimed thousands of victims. Newspapers talk about 14 million unemployed people. 14 million people be the population of several countries in Europe like Portugal, Holland, Norway, Sweden and other small countries and this is scary.
In the streets I see with my eyes and through my lenses all the misery installed and that are the result of all this disaster that came with this crisis with several people without work, many living in the streets, many begging for buses, subway. Many asking not only money but food to survive and every day that I go shooting in the streets it seems that as the days go by everything is getting worse and the scenery is getting darker.
My country is naturally a country of a happy, hard-working people, and I do not say it with a nationalist feeling (I am an anarchist), but I speak in the sense of people, of lives. I pray that these people can regain their joy, may have their social well-being restored, and live with more dignity and happiness.
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