Posts from the ‘Brazil’ Category
More Sao Paulo images
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When I was creating the audio slideshow “Beauty Amid Ugliness” for World Hum, one of the hardest parts was deciding which photos to include and which to exclude. I wanted to include far more than I had space for, and the problem with trying to squeeze in too many is that the slideshow becomes rushed. If you’re working with an audio track that is a little over two minutes long, the more photos you include, the quicker each one needs to be displayed. Above, then, are 18 photos that I wish I could have included.
New slideshow: “Beauty Amid Ugliness”
I have a new audio slideshow up on World Hum– it’s about finding beauty in Sao Paulo, a city not famous for being beautiful. Click the photo to watch it:
Photo of the week: Os Gemeos
Two women inspect a mural in New York City by the Brazilian graffiti artists Os Gemeos. August, 2009. © Rob Verger.
Want to see more Brazilian graffiti? Check out this slideshow of street art in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Photo of the week: green vine snake
Green vine snake in captivity at the Butantan serpentarium in Sao Paulo, Brazil. September, 2009. Photo © Rob Verger.
Brazilian graffiti comes to New York City
I’ve loved Brazilian graffiti since I began photographing it in Sao Paulo in August of 2008. That project culminated in a slideshow for the Travel Channel’s website World Hum, but my passion for photographing it hasn’t abated. When I read in The New York Times that two famous Brazilian graffiti artists, Os Gêmios, had painted a mural in downtown New York City, I got on the subway and decided to check it out, and photograph it, for myself. (The accompanying slideshow to the Times story, by Justin Maxon, inspired me to take some of my own photographs.)
In photographing it, I tried to capture not just the beauty and colors of the mural on a large scale, but also the smaller, more intimate scenes depicted. I also wanted to photograph how people interacted with it: seemingly ignoring it as they walked past, or studying it closely.
And finally, the last photograph in the above slideshow comes from the subway nearby. As I was walking down the steps after photographing the mural, I took a photo of the interesting character standing at the entrance– I like that behind him is blue and white New York City-style graffiti, splashed on the wall in the background.
