Jesus Make-up and Football

Frederik Buyckx

BOO 1829 U
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CONDITION & NOTES
Very Good / Exterior has very light shelf wear.

TYPE PUBLICATION YEAR
Softcover

2013

EDITION LANGUAGE
First

English

PUBLISHER DIMENSIONS
Lannoo 27.5 x 21 x 2 cm
CONDITION
Very Good / Exterior has very light shelf wear.

TYPE
Softcover

PUBLICATION YEAR
2013

EDITION
First

LANGUAGE
English

PUBLISHER
Lannoo

DIMENSIONS
27.5 x 21 x 2 cm

ABOUT

Rio de Janeiro has always had a bad reputation when it comes to safety. One of the reasons are the many favelas which are ruled by druglords. These slums, where drugs and guns are daily reality, often only are separated by one street from one of the richest and most exclusive areas of Rio de Janeiro.

 

Now in some favelas this finally has come to an end. With the World Cup coming to Rio in 2014 and the Olympics in 2016, politicians chose a strategy to clean up the favelas to give the city an image boost. The last few years all around the city favelas are getting pacified. The pacification starts with special police forces, often assisted by the army, taking over control in the favelas. This eventually results in peace and public safety for the locals and in a further stage improving infrastructure of the favela.

 

Frederik Buyckx rented a pied-terre for a few months in a favela and shared the inhabitants' daily lives. Jesus, Make-up and Football are the photographic result of those months.