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Title:Favela Boy; Alley Runner
<digital Nikon D-90> A Favela At the End of Gang Control: A series about the poetry of everyday life inside the largest gang-occupied favela in Rio de Janeiro just prior to “pacification” and on the cusp of Brazil’s emergence as a world economic giant, and of Rio’s hosting of the World Cup of Fútbol in 2014 and Olympic Games in 2016, at the height of the favela gangs’ storied and fabled 35-year criminal epoch.
Biography:
Gary Mark Smith, 56, has been photographing the streets of the world full time since 1978, 69 countries so far. A two-time American Photo Magazine International Competition winner, Smith specializes in documenting the poetry of everyday life on the global street, and in an attempt to be truely global, is notorious for sending himself on assignment to some of the most dangerous streets in the world. In his most recent such work, the portfolio submitted for the sixth annual Master Cup and the subject of his latest book project, "Favela da Rocinha, Brazil," took him to South America to... |
