“Flavio Sampaio”

Works in the city

Sao Paulo -  Man working during the night so they don’t disturb the chaotic traffic jam in Sao Paulo. …
Flavio Sampaio – Sao Paulo Lab

Works in the city

Sao Paulo -  Even on a Sunday, men work on a new and with a bigger width car passage construction in the city. Another gesture made with the intention to improve the traffic…
Flavio Sampaio – Sao Paulo Lab

Working men

Sao Paulo -  City Hall’s employees pruning trees nearby the state’s legislature house, next to the Ibirapuera park, the biggest in town.…
Flavio Sampaio – Sao Paulo Lab

Social study in industry

Sao Paulo -  SESI (Industry’s Social Service) student gets a short cut by Travessa Tim Maia in Vila Madalena, neighbourhood that concentrates artists, galeries and a lively night life in São Paulo.…
Flavio Sampaio – Sao Paulo Lab

Popcorn cart

Sao Paulo -  Red popcorn and chips are sold on Paraiso metro station viaduct. Both fried on oil. Diesel or soy oil?…
Flavio Sampaio – Sao Paulo Lab

Marginal do Tiete

Sao Paulo -  Air view of Tietê river that crosses the city of São Paulo from east to west. Very polluted in the last decades, the river was once used to aquatic and…
Flavio Sampaio – Sao Paulo Lab

Everything at the same time now

Sao Paulo -  Man walks to Paraiso metro station. Rain contributes a lot to the city disorder, even on a Saturday.…
Flavio Sampaio – Sao Paulo Lab

Clean traffic jam

Sao Paulo -  Sao Paulo street-sweepers clean Paulista Ave., an important financial centre in the city, in the middle of the chaotic traffic jam on Monday.…
Flavio Sampaio – Sao Paulo Lab

Velo-city

Sao Paulo -  The speed people go in and out the metro train is astonishing. This is the one of the cleanest and most organized transport in the world, has a flow of…
Flavio Sampaio – Sao Paulo Lab

Since 1950

Sao Paulo -  “s” shaped building projected by Oscar Niemeyer in downtown calls everyone’s attention when we pass it by. The Copan building has more than 1.100 apartments and more than 20…
Flavio Sampaio – Sao Paulo Lab

Painting city

Sao Paulo -  Traffic in Sao Paulo at the rush hour in 23 de Maio Ave. (that cuts the city from north to south). On your right, cars going to the north, and…
Flavio Sampaio – Sao Paulo Lab

Listen!

Sao Paulo -  Underground passage between the two sides of Rua da Consolação. A bookstore and public telephones share the space with urban artists that use it as canvas. (“Don’t put the…
Flavio Sampaio – Sao Paulo Lab

Ethanol

Sao Paulo -  Brazilian people love cars and take care of it in a very special way. Sunday is the day to check it out. Gas station attendant fuels the gas reservoir of…
Flavio Sampaio – Sao Paulo Lab

Urban photographer

Sao Paulo -  Graffiti, photos and “pixações“, urban art in traffic. We don’t live without it even a single day. Lino: Lovely the title and how you make me read the words…
Flavio Sampaio – Sao Paulo Lab

RGB

Sao Paulo -  Known as “drizzle land”, São Paulo is really grey, specially on rainy days. In the picture we see a colourful awning sequence from two bars and a hairdresser (the green…
Flavio Sampaio – Sao Paulo Lab

North area

Sao Paulo -  Air view of São Paulo city’s noth area. How long will it take for the buildings to climb the hill?…
Flavio Sampaio – Sao Paulo Lab

grey SP

Sao Paulo -  São Paulo has the second biggest helicopters flow in the world. Even looked from above, the city has the same greyish tone that we see on the asphalt.…
Flavio Sampaio – Sao Paulo Lab

End of the day shift

Sao Paulo -  Tunnel between Dr. Arnaldo and Paulita Ave., under Consolação street. The biggest flow goes home after work, end of the afternoon, the 19th of November.…
Flavio Sampaio – Sao Paulo Lab

The city doesna€™t stop

Sao Paulo -  23 de Maio Ave. south area way, end of dayshift on Monday, cars and motorcicles pressing each other. Without motoboys Sao Paulo wouldn’t move.…
Flavio Sampaio – Sao Paulo Lab

Push

Sao Paulo -  In Sao Paulo even sculptures push the citizen to work. Children use the sculpture to play while an airplane tooks off, in Rio de Janeiro direction. Idealized in 1920 by…
Flavio Sampaio – Sao Paulo Lab

Master carpenter

Sao Paulo -  My first job was in a joinery. I like the smell of wood, admire the art of carpenter masters and couldn’t not honor this. São Paulo, Santa Cecília neighbourhood.…
Flavio Sampaio – Sao Paulo Lab

Ginga Brasil

Sao Paulo -  Boy wearing a yellow t-shirt, Brazilian football symbol, crosses Paulista Ave. on Sunday, dribbles the photographer as in a match. Everything is football.…
Flavio Sampaio – Sao Paulo Lab

Doga€™s television

Sao Paulo -  Rotisserie’s employee gets a chicken spit from a “dog’s television” (how the machine that grills chicken is called). In the picture, “Samuca", how he’s known between the customers, has been…
Flavio Sampaio – Sao Paulo Lab