This project focuses mainly on photographing in Brasília, Brazil’s capital city built from scratch in the 1950’s and inaugurated on 1960.
Whenever I’d hear something about the city on the national news, it was something about Chief of Staff X, or Senator Y, or about Minister W, and hardly ever news made in a flattering way.
The gross amount of workers, though, people who manned the political and administrative machines, were outright ignored: cleaners, secretaries, clerks, janitors, doormen, pawns of the bureaucratic system – such as I am, being a public-sector employee drowned in daily red tape.
Since realizing that, I wanted to portrait common people, in common settings, in the way they were commonly seen by the media and by the machines they powered: no-ones, blurred and fungible, hardly recognizable as individuals. So my photos show, without really showing, the faceless common folk that usually take hours of public transportation to reach the rich and powerful zones of the city.
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