“Sao Paulo”

Old fashioned

Sao Paulo -  ‘Plate men on Republica square. Remain still all day becoming almost invisible in the crowd offering services of gold business and employment vacancy. Its a form of communication and work that seems a vestige of former time, contrasting with the modernity of the city’.

Ze Carlos Barretta – Sao Paulo Lab

Old Fashioned

Sao Paulo -  Mr. Armênio Pereira, 66, began making suits in Portugal when he was 12. When he turned 16 came to Sao Paulo. His small tailor shop, in the neighborhood of Santa…
Ines Correa – Sao Paulo Lab

Of least effort

Sao Paulo -  Do you work in the streets, near a bridge, with a boring work which requires you to stand up all the time? Reduce your tiredness sitting under the overpass, eating…
Sylvia Sanchez – Sao Paulo Lab

Obesity

Sao Paulo -  A note above the blue chair says it is reserved for obese people. Try to avoid blue chairs. In the metro carriages there is a run on the brown chairs…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

New urban slaverism.

Sao Paulo -  This catadore cannot become part of the collective. He is sorting out his garbage in the street. He cannot leave his car behind afraid as he is it will be…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

New Model

Sao Paulo -  Employee from Cine Reserva on Paulista Avenue, important commercial business in Sao Paulo smiled and strikes poses when saw that is being photographed, after, asks where it will be published…
Luciana Camargo – Sao Paulo Lab

National secretary office of Catadores

Sao Paulo -  Despite the informality of the job of catadores there is a support organisation that helps the collectives organise themselves. The only principle the collectives have to accept is, work as…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Modern times

Sao Paulo -  In the concrete corridors leading to the platforms of the metro it feels like being in an artwork for me. The shape of the tubes. The modernist seats. On the…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Metro man and woman

Sao Paulo -  In corners of the station and beyond you find couples kissing passionately. It does add a swing to live. Brazilian way. Ginga-Jogo de cintura. …
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Nothing can stop

Sao Paulo -  Physical moving: buses, cars, motorcycles. Information moving: man with a cell phone and women talking to each other while waiting ("standing still") to cross the street. Av. Rebouças - São…
Sylvia Sanchez – Sao Paulo Lab

New urban picturism

Sao Paulo -  A new and legão (cool, literally ‘legal’) venue for photography opened today. The first exhibition is showing the gutters of Sao Paulo. It is shot by a collective named…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

New and high

Sao Paulo -  Very high buildings being built in an area where there are still few builings. It’s the city growing vertical. Barra Funda - SP - 06/12/09 - pic. by Sylvia Sanchez…
Sylvia Sanchez – Sao Paulo Lab

Nap

Sao Paulo -  Nothing better than a rest in the afternoon, after a hard work taking paper in the street to sell. This is one of the way brazilian like to live. Sao…
Ines Correa – Sao Paulo Lab

Mobile Work

Sao Paulo -  This woman came from Equador. She sells scarves in Liberdade, a neighborhood of Chinese and Japanese people. She doesn’t speak portuguese and didn’t understand my questions in english as well…
Ines Correa – Migrationpapa

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

New Opportunities

Sao Paulo -  I first took the picture. Then I tried to talk with them. Once more, they didn’t want to talk. When they saw me with the camera they quicly went inside…
Ines Correa – Migrationpapa

Never forget the chairs

Sao Paulo -  Street vendors usually work standing all day long. Except those who carry their chairs together with their sales materials. Barra Funda - SP - 06/12/09 - pic. by Sylvia Sanchez…
Sylvia Sanchez – Sao Paulo Lab

Moving

Sao Paulo -  At lunch time, people work in a very Brazilian way, carry all kinds of things in their makeshift trolley, one tries to carry a kitchen stove to the other cart…
Luciana Camargo – Sao Paulo Lab

Mobile (?) shop Sao Paulo

Sao Paulo -  It is spring in Sao Paulo. Heavy rains and sunshine alternate. More rain and warmer then in other years make the trees blossom even more intensely. In this season the…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Newcomers Sao Paulo

Sao Paulo -  In my guesthouse it is all working people staying there. Like me. Mostly doctors and nurses coming from neighbouring countries like Peru, Colombia or other parts of Brazil. There is…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

New old people.

Sao Paulo -  Specially on sundays you might see many new old people in the streets. Jogging, walking hand in hand in a lovingly way. Sao paulo is the first city I see…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

Nature and art in harmony

Sao Paulo -  Neighborhood with high concentration of artists and poets. In Vila Madalena, you can find nature and art in the poetry of street names such as Harmony, Glitter and Sunflower and…
Ines Correa – Sao Paulo Lab

Motocross?

Sao Paulo -  There are so many bikes around that sometimes SP looks like a great Motocross track. However, the bus at the background of the image makes it clear that it is…
Sylvia Sanchez – Sao Paulo Lab

Mirror

Sao Paulo -  In the commercial areas of Sao Paulo, tall and law buildings contrasts and camouflage themselves with small houses. Company building LeGrand and Getronics. Rua Verbo Divino, Chácara Santo Antonio, São…
Luciana Camargo – Sao Paulo Lab