Participating Artists Press Agency
Tuesday 19th of March 2024 – page 1
Sao Paulo -
São Paulo’s unplanned urbanization sometimes causes some confusion. Streets which look like sidewalks. Or maybe it’s the sidewalks which look like streets? As there is no easy answer, pedestrians and…
Sylvia Sanchez –
Sao Paulo Lab
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
Sao Paulo -
If you live in the streets, drink a lot and ask people for money in order to survive, a way to get their attention and thus get some money is…
Sylvia Sanchez –
Sao Paulo Lab
Sao Paulo -
Laborer walks on viaduct. In the background, a modern high-rise building. The worker looks so small. This is Sao Paulo. Buildings grow upward. Humans sometimes are pushed down.
Viaduto sobre…
Sylvia Sanchez –
Sao Paulo Lab
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
Sao Paulo -
Concrete, buildings, mountains, trees, cars, circus, fireworks. Urban life, beautiful scenery (sometimes hidden), speed, culture, celebration. Sao Paulo summarized.
Viaduto sobre Av. Francisco Matarazzo - SP - pic. by Sylvia…
Sylvia Sanchez –
Sao Paulo Lab
Sao Paulo -
Within the Barra Funda Bus Station, there are “official†bookstores, selling magazines and new books.
Outside the Station, in the street, there is an outdoors “garage store", with used books…
Sylvia Sanchez –
Sao Paulo Lab
Sao Paulo -
If you are a man, far from any bathroom, and feel like peeing, look for some bushes, hide behind them and calmly pee.
Av. Francisco Matarazzo/ SP - 06/12/09 -…
Sylvia Sanchez –
Sao Paulo Lab
Sao Paulo -
Tired of carrying towels to sell? The solution is simple: stop at a bar and cool off with an ice cold beer.
Av. Francisco Matarazzo - São Paulo - 06/12/09…
Sylvia Sanchez –
Sao Paulo Lab
Sao Paulo -
Sao Paulo also has its moments of emptiness. At such times, there’s nothing else to be done than to patiently wait for the bus to arrive.
Barra Funda - SP…
Sylvia Sanchez –
Sao Paulo Lab
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
Sao Paulo -
Tired of “pixar†walls and “orelhões†(big ear phones)? Start to “pixar†pedestrian lights.
Av. Francisco Matarazzo - SP - pic. by Sylvia Sanchez…
Sylvia Sanchez –
Sao Paulo Lab
Sao Paulo -
You want to sell some kitchen towels, but do not have a tent? Use the bed of trees as “display".
Barra Funda - SP - 06/12/09 - pic. by Sylvia…
Sylvia Sanchez –
Sao Paulo Lab
Sao Paulo -
Are you taking a trip, with lots of luggage and will have to wait for the bus schedule? Make yourself at home: place your bags close to you and sit…
Sylvia Sanchez –
Sao Paulo Lab
Sao Paulo -
If you work at a pub and want to pitch on the floor a warning of “Caution, slippery floor", just get an empty bottle of wine and put it under…
Sylvia Sanchez –
Sao Paulo Lab
Sao Paulo -
The speed limit signs are not enough to “indoctrinate" São Paulo drivers. To try to control speed and reduce the large number of accidents, several cameras were installed along major…
Sylvia Sanchez –
Sao Paulo Lab
Sao Paulo -
Street flooded with water during heavy spring rain.
Barra Funda - São Paulo - 20/11/09 - foto por Sylvia Sanchez…
Sylvia Sanchez –
Sao Paulo Lab
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
Sao Paulo -
Barra Funda neighborhood is characterized by very large blocks, which make life difficult for pedestrians. To shorten paths: a “passage" is opened up, through the middle of a land yet…
Sylvia Sanchez –
Sao Paulo Lab
Sao Paulo -
If you own an urban ground, in order to keep it, just take advantage of an old wooden gate and heavy chains and padlocks. So no one will come into…
Sylvia Sanchez –
Sao Paulo Lab
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
Sao Paulo -
Every day, SP is “everfloaded†with several kilometers of traffic jams. But the city where “no time can be lost†can not wait. Hence thousands of motorcicles are everywhere around…
Sylvia Sanchez –
Sao Paulo Lab
Sao Paulo -
Several garbage bags lying on the street - waiting for collection. With rain, garbage falling outside the bags loads into the “boeiros†- favoring floods. Meanwhile, the plastic trash can…
Sylvia Sanchez –
Sao Paulo Lab